Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping.

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.

Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.

Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.

As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.

Disobedience is man's original virtue.

Sphinxes without secrets.