Trifles make perfection but perfection is not a trifle

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.

Love is a beautiful image Imagined or seen within the heart, The friend of virtue and gentility.

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 is a jealous thing; it requires the whole and entire man.

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