If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.
A mans face is his autobiography. A women's face is her work of fiction.
Hard work is amply the refuge of those who have nothing to do.
The best way to appreciate your job is to, is here to stay.
It is awfully hard work doing nothing.
To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.
It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.
In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.
The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.
Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.
When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.
There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.
One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.
It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon
Punctuality is the thief of time
He is never more present in my work than when no image of him is there.
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?
No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.