Love and delight are better teachers than compulsion.

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

Love and delight are better teachers than compulsion.

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.

No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.

The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.

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