Fine art is knowledge made visible.
I have never seen an angel. Show me an angel, and I'll paint one.
I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.
The principle of realism means denial of the ideal.
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.
I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.