My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.

The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.

There is but one kind of love; God is love, and all his creatures derive theirs from his; only it is modified by the different degrees of intelligence in different beings and creatures.

My heart swelled with uncontrollable delight.

To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.

I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens.

My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.