Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.

Everything factual is, in a sense, theory. The blue of the sky exhibits the basic laws of chromatics. There is no sense in looking for something behind phenomena: they are theory.

Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off.

A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

Create, artist, do not talk.

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.