All the other passions do occasional good, but whenever pride puts in its word, everything goes wrong, and what it might really be desirable to do, quietly and innocently, it is mortally dangerous to do, proudly.

When the whole world turns clown, and paints itself red with its own hearts blood instead of vermilion, it is something else than comic.

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

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.

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

It is among children only, and as children only, that you will find medicine for your healing and true wisdom for your teaching.

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.