You should not say it is not good. You should say you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.

Oscar Wilde: "I wish I had said that." Whistler: "You will, Oscar; you will.

If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.

If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this.

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

Art happens - no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.