It is not how a picture is painted that matters, it is what you paint. Some modern artists have sunk to imbecility, not pitiable imbecility but vicio… - William Robinson Leigh

Never in the whole of human history at any time or anywhere has there been a terrain more suitable for the making of pictures and telling of stories than our own West.

The worst thing the Government could have done for the nation was to allow these thousands of dub painters to put those frightful abortions called murals all over the country, especially in schools where the nation's children are brought up on them. The only thing it can lead to is insanity.

[Absinthe-drinking] ate away the brains of the French aristocracy and brought vulgar folk into control of the salons and everything else.