No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.
Help us to recognize your voice, help us not to be allured by the madness of the world, so that we may never fall away from you, O Lord Jesus Christ.
The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.
As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.
Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.
