Help us to recognize your voice, help us not to be allured by the madness of the world, so that we may never fall away from you, O Lord Jesus Christ.
What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.
Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it.
If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.
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.