From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born

If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two blocks-but never three

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course

Genius is eternal patience

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

The best of artists hath no thought to show, which the rough stone in its superfluous shell, doth not include to break the marble spell, is all the hand that serves the brain can do