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

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

To touch is to give life.

If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.

Lord, make me see thy glory in every place.

I criticise by creation, not by finding fault.

I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.