In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.

The history of art is the history of revivals.