All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.

Life is an ecstasy. Life is sweet as nitrous oxide.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.

Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.

When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall not discern the foot-prints of any other; you shall not see the face of man; you shall not hear any name; the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new. It shall exclude example and experience.