It is a good thing to stand away from the canvas from time to time and take a full view of the picture.

Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are billed to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death.

I do not presume to explain how to paint, but only how to get enjoyment.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.

We have taken a grave and hazardous decision to sustain the Greeks and try to make a Balkan Front.

And wherever men are fighting against barbarism, tyranny, and massacre, for freedom, law, and honour, let them remember that the fame of their deeds, even though they themselves be exterminated, may perhaps be celebrated as long as the world rolls round.