No One Has Mastery, Before He Is

I Have Never Felt Salvation In Nature. I Love Cities Above All.

True Art Is Made Noble And Religious By The Mind Producing It.

Painters Are Not In Any Way Unsociable Through Pride, But Either Because They Find Few Pursuits Equal To Painting, Or In Order Not To Corrupt Themselves With The Useless Conversation Of Idle People, And Debase The Intellect From The Lofty Imaginations In Which They Are Always Absorbed.

A Good Sculpture Can Be Rolled Downhill Without Breaking.

The Promises Of This World Are, For The Most Part, Vain Phantoms; And To Confide In One's Self, And Become Something Of Worth And Value Is The Best And Safest Course.