Don't just look at buildings ... watch them.

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

That which is required in order to the attainment of accurate conclusions respecting the essence of the Beautiful is nothing morethan earnest, loving, and unselfish attention to our impressions of it.

God alone can finish.

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.

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.

Hope- the recognition, by true foresight, of better things to be reached here after.