Trifles make perfection but perfection is not a trifle

I serve for the love of God and in Him have all my hope.

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

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

Good painting is nothing else but a copy of the perfections of God and a reminder of His painting. Finally, good painting is a music and a melody which intellect only can appreciate, and with great difficulty.

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

Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.