Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is.

Though nature is constantly beautiful, she does not exhibit her highest powers of beauty constantly, for then they would satiate us and pall upon our senses. It is necessary to their appreciation that they should be rarely shown. Her finest touches are things which must be watched for; her most perfect passages of beauty are the most evanescent.

"Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are."

It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little.

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

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