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When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.