He who does not master the nude cannot understand the principles of architecture.

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

The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting, sculpture, architecture... Sometimes... it seems to me that... all the works of the human brain and hand are either design itself or a branch of that art.

Do you know that women who are chaste remain much fresher than those who are not?

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

Trifles make perfection but perfection is not a trifle

However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man.