Genius lasts longer than beauty

Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months! It is quite clear that were it beautiful and rational we would not alter anything that combined those two rare qualities. And wherever dress has been so, it has remained unchanged in law and principle for many hundred years.

but the bravest man among us is afraid of himself

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless.

No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.