The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.

Though nature is constantly beautiful, she does not exhibit her highest powers of beauty constantly, for then they would satiate us and pall upon our senses. It is necessary to their appreciation that they should be rarely shown. Her finest touches are things which must be watched for; her most perfect passages of beauty are the most evanescent.

You may sell your work, but not your soul.

Everything that you can see in the world around you presents itself to your eyes only as an arrangement of patches of different colors.

Nearly all our powerful men in this age of the world are unbelievers; the best of them in doubt and misery; the worst in reckless defiance; the plurality, in plodding hesitation, doing, as well as they can, what practical work lies ready to their hands.

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

You will never love art well until you love what she mirrors better.