Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

Do you know that drawing with words is also an art... ?

It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation—of loneliness, poverty, and misery, the end and extreme of things—the thought of God comes into one's mind.

What is true is that I have at times earned my own crust of bread, and at other times a friend has given it to me out of the goodness of his heart. I have lived whatever way I could, for better or for worse, taking things just as they came.

Modern reality has got such a hold on us that... when we attempt to reconstruct the ancient days in our thoughts...the minor events of our lives tear us away from our meditations, and... thrust us back into our personal [problems]

In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.