"Never in the whole of human history at any time or anywhere has there been a terrain more suitable for the making of …"

"[Absinthe-drinking] ate away the brains of the French aristocracy and brought vulgar folk into control of the salons …"

"It is not how a picture is painted that matters, it is what you paint. Some modern artists have sunk to imbecility, n…"

"The worst thing the Government could have done for the nation was to allow these thousands of dub painters to put tho…"

"Enjoying an extraordinary knowledge of languages (ancient and modern), literature, and art, by his cultured personali…"

"One scarcely knows to whom to complain."

"I used to maintain that if it couldn't be put into words it didn't exist; if anything I believe rather the opposite now."

"Of course I believe in graphology, also palmistry, the I Ching, the tarot, astrology, and all those other delicious t…"

"I think style chooses you... if I could choose, I would write like Jane Austen and I would draw like Rembrandt."

"Well, I'm neither one thing nor the other particularly. I suppose I'm gay. But I don't really identify with it much..…"