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

In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.

What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end.

No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.

If some people really see angels where others see only empty space, let them paint the angels: only let not anybody else think they can paint an angel too, on any calculated principles of the angelic.