The Greatest Risk To Man Is Not

I Couldn't Give You Something Mediocre Even If That's All You Asked For.

It Is Well With Me Only When I Have A Chisel In My Hand.

Critique By Creating.

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.

My Soul Can Find No Staircase To Heaven Unless It Be Through Earth's Loveliness.