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

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

As you give out, so shall you receive.

As when, O lady mine, With chiselled touch, The stone unhewn and cold, Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

Souls will never ascend to Heaven until the sight of beauty lifts them there.

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.