"Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door."

"The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough."

"A great artist is always before his time or behind it."

"A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it."

"All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects."

"It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people."