Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

So take care of your life and take notice and be observant, for the number of widows is always far greater than the number of widowers.

Already at sixteen, my mind was a battlefield: my love of pagan beauty, the male nude, at war with my religious faith. A polarity of themes and forms: one spiritual, the other earthly.

Beauty depends on purpose. It is in the elements best suited to their purpose or aim that beauty shines forth most strongly.

I am always learning.