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

Love and delight are better teachers than compulsion.

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.

The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.

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

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.

Sight is the noblest sense of man.