It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.

Nature is always mysterious and secret in her use of means; and art is always likest her when it is most inexplicable.

The finer the nature, the more flaws it will show through the clearness of it; and it is a law of this universe that the best things shall be seldomest seen in their best form.

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.

If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.

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