"Once you open up a secret, it starts leaking out all over."

"It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first princip…"

"I am an artist, I trade in uncertainty and superstition and cant. I invent dark visions of impossible situa…"

"He takes off his cap. He mops his brow. He looks in and gets the sign. He starts the windup. Here's the pit…"

"In the army it takes an eight-man working party to help a brass hat blow his nose."

"To regiment artists, to make them servants of some particular cause does violence to the very springs of ar…"

"Common Chord" . "Key Notes: New Director of the Paris Conservatoire". The Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actu…"