“Two and two continue to make four in spite of the whine of the amateur for three or the cry of the critic for five.”

“Nature is usually wrong.”

“To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.”

“Two and two continue to make four in spite of the whine of the amateur for three or the cry of the critic for five.”

“To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”

“But just as my philosophy had ceased to interest me as soon as it was formulated into a set of principles so, when I saw myself being imitated, I realised at once what an incubus my aesthetic perso...”

“Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all ones prejudices.”

“There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike...”