Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts .... We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paint-box.

Do what you like, but like what you do.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.

This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of painting.

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains.