No language is rude that can boast polite writers..

I have one aim, the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing..

It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician..

Advertisement is an absolute necessity of modern life, and if it can be made beautiful as well as obvious, so much the better for the makers of soap ….

All humanity inspires me. Every passer-by is my unconscious sitter; and as strange as it may seem, I really draw folk as I see them. Surely it is not….

How few of our young English impressionists knew the difference between a palette and a picture! However, I believe that Walter Sickert did - sly dog!.

When an Englishman has professed his belief in the supremacy of Shakespeare amongst all poets, he feels himself excused from the general study of lit….

I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it... I have worked to amuse myself, and if it has amused the public as well, so ….

What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days before photography came in a sitter had a ….

In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness ….

Things shape themselves before my eyes just as a I draw them..