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

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.

Sight is the noblest sense of man.

Geometry is the foundation of all painting.

And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art. . .

Love and delight are better teachers than compulsion.

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