Love and delight are better teachers than compulsion.

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

I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.

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.

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

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

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.