Quotes
"Nor, in looking at a work of art, should we be dreaming of what it symbolises, but rather loving it for what it is."
"Their pathetic intentions are of no value to us, but their realised creations only."
"Whatever work we have in the nineteenth century must rest on the two poles of personality and perfection."
"one's real life is so often the life that one does not lead"
"It is a beautifully coloured surface, nothing more"