"The clown may be blatant, but the acrobat is always beautiful."

"Though none of them can talk Greek, many can look Greek, which to a nineteenth-century painter is naturally of great importance."

"For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners."

"A good circus is an oasis of Hellenism in a world that reads too much to be wise, and thinks too much to be beautiful."

"Model-painting, in a word, while it may be the condition of art, is not by any means its aim."

"The robe may be the robe of Athens, but the face is usually the face of Brompton."

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