An artist need not be a minister or a collector in church, but he must have a warm heart for people, and I find it a noble thing that, for example, no winter passed without The Graphic doing something to keep alive sympathy for the poor.

Only when I fall do I get up again.

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love, as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning.