Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art. 684
Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man. 698
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates. 847
It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week. 701
