The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

Sky is the part of creation in which Nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man, more for the sole and evident purpose of talking to him and teaching him, than in any other of her works, and it is just the part in which we least attend to her.

The power of association is stronger than the power of beauty; therefore, the power of association is the power of beauty.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

I believe that there is no test of greatness in periods, nations or men more sure than the development, among them or in them, of a noble grotesque, and no test of comparative smallness or limitation, of one kind or another, more sure than the absence of grotesque invention, or incapability of understanding it.

No nation can last which has made a mob of itself, however generous at heart.