I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
Source: Letter, 21 May 1878, to her daughter, the Crown Princess of Prussia (published in Queen Victoria in Her Letters and Journals, ed. by Christopher Hibbert, 1984).
-- Queen Victoria, (May 24 1819-1901), British royalty; She had the longest reign in British history, 1837-1901 as Great Britain and Ireland; Empress of India.