The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.
What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in which the outward is expressive of the inward: in which form reveals.
I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.
The weather is entrancing, but in my heart there is no sun.
I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.