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

Geometry is the foundation of all painting.

Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it.

Sight is the noblest sense of man.

An artist of understanding and experience can show more of his great power and art in small things roughly and rudely done, than many another in a great work. A man may often draw something with his pen on a half sheet of paper in one day . . . . and it shall be fuller of art and better than another's great work whereon he hath spent a whole year's careful labor.

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

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