Who said “Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.”?

“Art is science made clear.”

“Every artist was first an amateur.”

“No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.”

“Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.”

“I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.”

“You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.”

“Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.”

“Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.”

“He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this?”

“Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.”

“All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light. And though I seem to have been driven out of my country here as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.”