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.

In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and remarkable success.

What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north.

A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful moneymaker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example. A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend, and may leave behind him an exhausted industry and a legacy of industrial hatred. A tough manager may never look outside his own factory walls or be conscious of his partnership in a wider world. I often wonder what strange cud such men sit chewing when their working days are over, and the accumulating riches of the mind have eluded them.

Considering the company I keep in this place, that is hardly surprising.

One thing about bureaucrats is that they never swallow their young. Leave them alone and you'll find them increasing every year.

I did but see her passing by and yet I love her till I die.