A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
viewThe true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
viewTrifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
viewFaith in oneself is the best and safest course.
viewI saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
viewAlready at 16, my mind was a battlefield: my love of pagan beauty, the male nude, at war with my religious faith. A polarity of themes and forms - one spiritual, the other earthly.
viewEvery beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
viewHis hope is treacherous only whose love dies with beauty, which is varying every hour, bit, in chaste hearts uninfluenced by the power of outward change, there blooms a deathless flower, that breathes on earth the air of paradise.
viewBeauty is the purgation of superfluities.
viewThe greater danger for most of us is notthat our aim is too high and we miss it,but that it is too low and we reach it.
viewI cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.
viewDeath and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
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