The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim; So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth, eternal Reason, Which from Beauty takes its dress, And serene through time and season Stands aye in loveliness.

Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.

Treat people the way they are and they will stay that way. Treat people the way they can become and they will become that way.

Collectors are happy people.

Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.

Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose.