Men are what their mothers made them.

Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.

Don't ever give up on something or someone that you can't go a full day without thinking about.

The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul

The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.

In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.

When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart.