He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.

We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more.

I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.

With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.

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.

Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.

Higher yet and higher out of clouds and night, nearer yet and nearer rising to the light - light, serene and holy where my soul may rest, purified and lowly, sanctified and blest.