The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.

I've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models... I couldn't attempt to do a portrait from photographs of somebody I didn't know.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed.

They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.

There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.