George Moore (novelist)

"It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you dont paint badly like other people."

"One must be in London to see the spring."

"It would appear that practical morality consists in making the meeting of men and women as casual as that of animals."

"I have always noticed that when a fellow wants to finish a play, the only way to do it is to go away to the country and leave no address."

"I will admit that an artist may be great and limited; by one word he may light up an abyss of soul; but there must be this one magical and unique word. Shakespeare gives us the word, Balzac, sometimes, after pages of vain striving, gives us the word, Tourgueneff gives it with miraculous certainty; but Henry James, no; a hundred times he flutters about it; his whole book is one long flutter near to the one magical and unique word, but the word is not spoken; and for want of the word his characters are never resolved out of the haze of nebulae. You are on a bowing acquaintance with them; they pass you in the street, they stop and speak to you, you know how they are dressed, you watch the colour of their eyes."

"Ugliness is trivial, the monstrous is terrible."