Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

My only politics have been friendship.

Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.

A prig always finds a last refuge in responsibility.

I am happy to exhibit, but not to put myself on exhibition.

Listen carefully to first criticisms of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That is the part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.

Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by its source.

Tact consists in knowing how far to go in going too far.