Irish Artist Quotes

I detest collaterals. Blood may be thicker than water, but it is also a great deal nastier.

Edith Somerville

In America, people talk either to say or to listen to memorable things—but there is no atmosphere.

John Butler Yeats

Painting became everything to me…Through it I made articulate all that I saw and felt, all that went on inside the mind that was housed within my useless body like a prisoner in a cell.

To have known the man was even as great a treat as to read his books. Lewis Carroll was as unlike any other man as his books were unlike any other author's books. It was a relief to meet the pure simple, innocent dreamer of children, after the selfish commercial mind of most authors.

No leader, however great a personality he may be, is as important to a people as their own intellectual development.

George William Russell