Remember always, in painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter will be your manner, and the fewer your words; and in painting, as in all the arts and acts of life the secret of high success will be found, not in a fretful and various excellence, but in a quiet singleness of justly chosen aim.

No picture can be good which deceives by its imitation, for the very reason that nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

If you can draw the stone rightly, everything within reach of art is also within yours.

Unless we perform divine service with every willing act of our life, we never perform it at all.