As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.

He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.

There are brains so large that they unconsciously swamp all individualities ties which come in contact or too near, and brains so small that they cannot take in the conception of any other individuality as a whole, only in part or parts.

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.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

A bond is necessary to complete our being, only we must be careful that the bond does not become bondage.

Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair.