Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.
John SterlingEmotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.
John SterlingFaith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.
John SterlingColor, in the outward world, answers to feeling in man; shape, to thought; motion, to will. The dawn of day is the nearest outward likeness of an act of creation; and it is, therefore, also the closest type in nature for that in us which most approaches to creation--the realization of an idea by an act of the will.
John Sterling