Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets.
Wherever you are, I am there also.
Only art and science can raise men to the level of God.
Men are not only together when they are with each other; even the distant and the dead live with us.
What is to reach the heart must come from above; if it does not come from thence, it will be nothing but notes, body without spirit.
There ought to be only one large art warehouse in the world, to which the artist could carry his art-works and from which he could carry away whatever he needed. As it is one must be half a tradesman.