The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
The contour should come last, only a very experienced eye can place it rightly.
I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.
Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.
Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.
Real beauty in the arts is eternal and would be accepted at all periods; but it wears the dress of its century: something of that dress clings to it, and woe to the works which appear in periods when the general taste is corrupted.