The human mind cannot go beyond the gift of God, the Holy Ghost. To suppose that art can go beyond the finest specimens of art that are now in the world is not knowing what art is; it is being blind to the gifts of the spirit.

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

All the destruction in Christian Europe has arisen from deism, which is natural religion.

What has reason to do with the art of painting?

And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.