The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven forever in the work of the world.

I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

To follow art for the sake of being a great man, and therefore to cast about continually for some means of achieving position or attracting admiration, is the surest way of ending in total extinction.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.