He [ Titian ] is the least mannered and consequently the most varied of artists. Mannered talents have but one bias, one usage only. They are more apt to follow the impulse of the hand than to control it. Those that are less mannered must be more varied, for they continually respond to genuine emotion.

We are told that Shakespeare's plays were generally performed in barns and that no great trouble was taken over the production. The constant changes of scene w…

In every art we are always obliged to return to the accepted means of expression, the conventional language of the art. What is a black-and-white drawing but a…

We should not allow ourselves to believe that writers like Poe have more imagination than those who are content with describing things as they really are. It i…

One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form.

'For me, music and life are all about style.'

The piano is always true to me. In times of despair, happiness, and joy, its mood is always my own.