The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.

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

Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.

Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.

I give my soul to God, my body to the earth, and my worldly possessions to my nearest of kin, charging them to remember the sufferings of Jesus Christ.

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.