Nature holds the beautiful, for the artist who has the insight to extract it. Thus, beauty lies even in humble, perhaps ugly things, and the ideal, which bypasses or improves on nature, may not be truly beautiful in the end.

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.

My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to support himself and his wife and family.

What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.

Nature holds the beautiful, for the artist who has the insight to extract it. Thus, beauty lies even in humble, perhaps ugly things, and the ideal, which bypasses or improves on nature, may not be truly beautiful in the end.

Some think that they know everybody, but they really don't know themselves.

Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing.