I felt that this grey, monstrous London of ours, with its myriads of people, its sordid sinners and its splendid sins

“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person w…”

“I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized fro…”

“As the painter looked at the gracious and comely form he had so skilfully mirro…”

“I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be rui…”