← "Of course in art there is the good and the evil. 🔊
← If other arts than painting were not utterly unintelligible to all but the men who practiced them, the law tottered—the Monroe Doctrine, as it were, did not hold good. 🔊
← The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art. 🔊
← THOU HAST NOT BEEN NOR ART! 🔊
← Wherever congregated the jeunes feroces of the arts, in whatever Soho restaurant they had just discovered, in whatever music-hall they were most frequently, there was Soames in the midst of them, or, rather, on the fringe of them, a dim, but inevitable, figure. 🔊
← But at the private view of the New English Art Club, a few weeks later, I beheld a pastel portrait of "Enoch Soames, Esq." 🔊
← Afar, the great grisly background of what was in store for the poor dear art of letters; 🔊
← "In life and in art," he said, "all that matters is an inevitable ending." 🔊