Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude of people who resort to them.

There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.

Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid and works its effect, itself unseen.

The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently does this. Sometimes it fails and something else succeeds.

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

Taste depends upon those finer emotions which make the organization of the soul.

Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire.

Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come from nothing.

None of you believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.

There will always be people who will accept you for what you are!

To know a man’s secrets is to discover his weakness, and thus control his will

Many have been the wise speeches of fools though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.

I want it all - and I would like it delivered.

What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy

Some people learn to lose. Others lose and learn.

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

When I was 17 I sent a picture up to an agency, and within a week I was in The Sun five days in a row.

By suprematism I mean the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art.