To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.
People wrote the most beautiful things during the ugliest times.
There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.
Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.
Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.