Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.
To know each other is the best way to understand each other. To understand each other is the only way to love each other.
If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.