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.

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

The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.

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

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