Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing.

Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.

No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

What fire does not destroy, it hardens

When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.