The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.

Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.

Hear no evil, speak no evil - and you'll never be invited to a party

Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.

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.