He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.
Do not forget that small daily actions do or undo character.
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.
They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.