As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.
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One of the proud joys of the man of letters --if that man of letters is an artist is to feel within himself the power to immortalize at will anything he chooses to immortalize. Insignificant though he may be, he is conscious of possessing a creative divinity. God creates lives; the man of imagination creates fictional lives which may make a profound and as it were more living impression on the world's memory.
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A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
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That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
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There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.
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There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value: the boredom that afflicts us. It is the hall-mark of quality in modern men.
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