It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.

No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life.

A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection

Already at sixteen, my mind was a battlefield: my love of pagan beauty, the male nude, at war with my religious faith. A polarity of themes and forms: one spiritual, the other earthly.

The greatest risk to man is not that he aims to high and misses, but that he aims to low and hits.

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.

Serene I fold my hands and wait.