Women's styles may change but their designs remain the same.

People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

God and other artists are always a little obscure.

It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.