A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.