The great tragedy of life is not that people set their sights too high and fail to achieve their goals but that they set their sights too low and do.

My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.

Lord, make me see thy glory in every place.

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?

Art is a jealous thing; it requires the whole and entire man.