I certainly do not begin with any meaning. It is as though my hands do all the thinking.

- Quentin Bell

The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself.

- Quentin Bell

A book is so much a part of oneself that in delivering it to the public one feels as if one were pushing one's own child out into the traffic.

- Quentin Bell