It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.

The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.

We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.

It is not by his mixing and choosing, but by the shapes of his colors, and the combination of those shapes, that we recognize the colorist. Color becomes significant only when it becomes form.

Art and religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstacy.

The starting-point for all systems of aesthetics must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion. The objects that provoke this emotion we call works of art.

Comfort came in with the middle classes.

Detail is the heart of realism, and the fatty degeneration of art.

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.

It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.

I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.

My life - my personality, my habits, even my speech - is a combination of the books I choose to read, the people I choose to listen to, and the thoughts I choose to tolerate in my mind

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

I have turned down a lot of garbage lately.

The peril of this Nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and its hope.

If you're waiting for the job, you're dead.

The painter’s instrument is his armchair.

Wisdom makes light the darkness of ignorance.

Nothing under the sun is accidental, least of all that of which the intention is so clearly evident.

This is the operative statement. The others are inoperative.