What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.

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

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

Sight is the noblest sense of man.

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

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

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