A useless life is an early death.

Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be only understood and represented by the spirit.

We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes.

We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.

Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced a master like Raphael.

Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.

Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.