No divine terror will ever be found in the work of the man who wastes a colossal strength in elaborating toys; for the first lesson that terror is sent to teach us is, the value of the human soul, and the shortness of mortal time.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

However good you may be you have faults; however dull you may be you can find out what some of them are, and however slight they may be you had better make some - not too painful, but patient efforts to get rid of them.

The highest thoughts are those which are least dependent on language, and the dignity of any composition and praise to which it is entitled are in exact proportion to its dependency of language or expression.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.