Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything."

"The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature."

"Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there."

It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produced a false impression.

In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the press.