Foolish consistencies are the hobgoblins of small minds!

I now require this of all pictures, that they domesticate me, not that they dazzle me. Pictures must not be too picturesque. Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing. All great actions have been simple, and all great pictures are.

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and enforces them to do the same again. The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament.

The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvest of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.