Samuel Butler

"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."

"The history of art is the history of revivals."

"Life is not an exact science, it is an art."

"Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises."

"The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money."

"The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it."