There are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some particular thing that they can't help themselves, they've got to do it. They're prepared to sacrifice everything to satisfy their yearning.

Why did you look at the sunset?' Philip answered with his mouth full: Because I was happy.

I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.

The end of culture is right living

I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull.

Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man.