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

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

I'm too old to know everything

Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in which the outward is expressive of the inward: in which form reveals.

We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.