Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.

A taste for simplicity cannot last for long.

Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.

Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.

Nourish yourself with grand and austere ideas of beauty that feed the soul Seek solitude.

We work not only to produce, but to give value to time.