When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered.

Shall I part my hair behind Do I dare to eat a peach I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.

No generation is interested in art in quite the same way as any other; each generation, like each individual, brings to the contemplation of art its own categories of appreciation, makes its own demands upon art, and has its own uses for art.

Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third.

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.

Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?

Those who arrive at the end of the journey are not those who began.