The power of association is stronger than the power of beauty; therefore, the power of association is the power of beauty.

Contrast increases the splendor of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power.

When God shuts a door, He opens a window.

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.

All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.

There is no law of history any more than of a kaleidoscope.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.