I have a horror of not rising above mediocrity.

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous

I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between.

He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.