For his contemporaries, Racine was a romantic, but for every age he is classical, that is to say, he is faultless.

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…

Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume.

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 follo…

At present, I am a poet trying to be a soldier. To tell the truth, I am not interested in writing nowadays, except in so far as writing is the expression of so…

It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as we now value the artists and craftsmen of the l…

When learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foes First reared the stage, immortal Shakespeare rose; Each change of many-colored life he drew, Exhausted worlds, …