Drawing is a means of obtaining and communicating knowledge

You may assuredly find perfect peace, if you are resolved to do that which your Lord has plainly required--and content that He should indeed require no more of you--than to do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with Him.

Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not.

Architecture ... the adaptation of form to resist force.

Give me some mud off a city crossing, some ochre out of a gravel pit and a little whitening and some coal dust and I will paint you a luminous picture if you give me time to gradate my mud and subdue my dust.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

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