Great Throughts Treasury

"Let us leave... labels to those who have little else wherewith to cover their nakedness."

"Humanity is composed but of two categories, the invalids and the nurses."

"Come again when you can't stay so long. [To unwelcome guests]"

"Nothing knits man to man, the Manchester School wisely taught, like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash."

"Nothing links man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of a good book."

"On a series of apparently tiresome, flat sittings seeming to lead nowhere – one day something happens, the touches seem to 'take', the deaf canvas listens, your words flow and you have done something."

"Perhaps the importance that we must attach to the achievement of an artist or a group of artists may properly be measured by the answer to the following question: Have they so wrought that it will be impossible henceforth, for those who follow, ever again to act as if they had not existed?"

"Cezanne was fated, as his passion was immense, to be immensely neglected, immensely misunderstood, and now, I think, immensely overrated. "

"Photography, like alcohol, should only be allowed to those who can do without it. "

"You must come again when you have less time."