Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Two days in this city is worth two months in New York.

Never take any notice of Anonymous letters, unless you get a few thousand on the same subject.

I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women.

Thinking ahead, what really happens to us will depend on how many people we have who are of the great and sober and dynamic middle-class - the strivers, the planners, the ambitious ones.

More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.

A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend . . .