Industry in art is a necessity - not a virtue - and any evidence of the same, in the production, is a blemish, not a quality; a proof, not of achievement, but of absolutely insufficient work, for work alone will efface the footsteps of work.

Art is limited to the infinite, and beginning there cannot progress.

If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.

Nature is very rarely right, to such an extent even, that it might almost be said that nature is usually wrong.

The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.

If silicon had been a gas I should have been a major-general.

Nature contains the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music. But the artists is born to pick, and choose, and group with science, these elements, that the result may be beautiful - as the musician gathers his notes, and forms his chords, until he brings forth from chaos glorious harmony