Sight is the noblest sense of man.

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

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

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.

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

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

Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.