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

Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.

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.

Color is, in brief terms, the type of love. Hence it is especially connected with the blossoming of the earth; and again, with its fruits; also, with the spring and fall of the leaf, and with the morning and evening of the day, in order to show the waiting of love about the birth and death of man.

What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do