Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!

And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws.

It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

One is not always happy when one is good; but one is always good when one is happy.

Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.