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

Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.

No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

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.

Sight is the noblest sense of man.