Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls round its Versailles; and personally I hate those walls most when they are made by literature and art.

They pay thousands and thousands for the Van Goghs and Modiglianis they'd have spat on at the time they were painted. Guffawed at. Made coarse jokes about.

Edith Sitwell's interest in art was largely confined to portraits of herself.

Science disembodies; art embodies.

Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles; and personally I hate those walls most when they are made by literature and art.