Our best thoughts come from others.
The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
Beauty without expression is boring.
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
Every artist was first an amateur.
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.