This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking.

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.