Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.

Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.