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

“Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.”

“The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality and eventually in one's own.”

“Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.”

“Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.”

“Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other peop...”

“Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.”

“Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.”

“A photograph is usually looked at- seldom looked into.”

“We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful...”

“The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.”

“Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.”