The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

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

Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating.

Art only begins where Imitation ends.

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.