As unity demanded for its expression what at first might have seemed its opposite--variety; so repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite--energy. It is the most unfailing test of beauty; nothing can be ignoble that possesses it, nothing right that has it not.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

The Divine mind is as visible in its full energy of operation on every lowly bank and mouldering stone as in the lifting of the pillars of heaven, and settling the foundation of the earth.

A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

There are many religions, but there is only one morality.