A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
He is never more present in my work than when no image of him is there.
No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.
A mans face is his autobiography. A women's face is her work of fiction.
Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?
When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.
There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.
One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.
Punctuality is the thief of time
To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.
It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.