authenticity Quotes

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.

Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.

True friends stab you in the front.

Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.

I have never given adoration to any body except myself.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.