I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
If people knew how hard I worked at my art, they would not consider me a genius.
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.