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.

To know each other is the best way to understand each other. To understand each other is the only way to love each other.

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

And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than that of the sheep with which he is clothed.

For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and whoever strives after it, is striving after something divine. True painting is only the image of the perfection of God, a shadow of the pencil with which he paints, a melody, a striving after harmony.

If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.

No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.