"The artist, like the idiot or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it."

“They loved him, I think, because, with all his merits, he showed them to be rich: looking at his portraits, they understood at last how rich they really were.”

“Educ: during the holidays from Eton.”

“The Rich Man's Banquet, which was to last for a decade, had now begun: the feast, it was recognised, went to the greediest.”

“Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out.”

“Hell has a climate, but no situation. It lies in the spirit, and not in space.”

“The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy…to conceal the intensity of his obsession from all except those similarly afflicted.”