Painting is with me but another word for feeling.

I never saw an ugly thing in my life.

I do not consider myself at work unless I am before a six-foot canvas.

There has never been a boy painter, nor can there be. The art requires a long apprenticeship, being mechanical, as well as intellectual.

We see nothing till we truly understand it.

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

Verse is a mechanism by which we can create interpretative illusions suggesting profoundities of response and understanding which far exceed the engagement or research of the writer.