In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.

We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.

Thoughts and emotions which never perhaps were in the mind of the artist, never were anticipated, never were intended by him - may be strongly suggested by his work. This is an important part of the morals of art, which we must never lose sight of. Art is not only for pleasure and profit, but for good and for evil.

In every mind where there is a strong tendency to fear there is a strong capacity to hate. Those who dwell in fear dwell nest door to hate; and I think it is the cowardice of women which makes them such intense haters.

Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.

Nature is boundless in her powers, exhausting in her variety: the powers of Art and its capabilities of variety in production are bounded on every side. Nature herself, the infinite, has circumscribed the bounds of finite Art. The one is the divinity; the other the priestess.

If we can still love those who have made us suffer, we love them all the more.