Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light.

Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

One is never satisfied with a portrait of persons whom one knows. That is why I have always pitied portraitists. One demands so seldom of others the impossible, but demands just that of the portraitists.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.