Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.

What is in reality cowardice and faithlessness, we call charity, and consider it the part of benevolence sometimes to forgive men's evil practice for the sake of their accurate faith, and sometimes to forgive their confessed heresy for the sake of their admirable practice.

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.

No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.

What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do

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

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.