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

The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things.

To do your own work well, whether it be for life or death.

Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men.

The object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy them

I know well that happiness is in little things.

Give me some mud off a city crossing, some ochre out of a gravel pit and a little whitening and some coal dust and I will paint you a luminous picture if you give me time to gradate my mud and subdue my dust.