“When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money”

“The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities.... A fresh mode of Beauty is absolutely distasteful to them, and whenever it appears they get so angry and bewildered that they always use two stupid expressions--one is that the work of art is grossly unintelligible; the other, that the work of art is grossly immoral. What they mean by these words seems to me to be this. When they say a work is grossly unintelligible, they mean that the artist has said or made a beautiful thing that is new; when they describe a work as grossly immoral, they mean that the artist has said or made a beautiful thing that is true.”

“You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.”

“The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.”

“To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.”

“One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.”

“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”