“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”

“Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.”

“Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.”

“Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.”

“With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.”

“The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.”

“The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded ear.”

“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”

“Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted”

“Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.”

“Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods.”

“All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another and is precious according to the greatness of...”