Portraits of George Moore

"Sickert, Steer, Tonks—these, I think, were the friends he valued most.  They were more or less coeval with him, and they were painters.  It was with painters that he was happiest. 

 

To them he could talk, with the certainty that they would sympathise, about painting, and about literature without being interrupted. 

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They, on their side, revered him as the one mere critic with whom they could talk as with one of themselves.”

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— Max Beerbohm on George Moore and Painters