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

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

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.

Love and delight are better teachers than compulsion.

Some think that they know everybody, but they really don't know themselves.

An artist of understanding and experience can show more of his great power and art in small things roughly and rudely done, than many another in a great work. A man may often draw something with his pen on a half sheet of paper in one day . . . . and it shall be fuller of art and better than another's great work whereon he hath spent a whole year's careful labor.

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