“All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.”

“All great art is praise.”

“All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own.”

“All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.”

“Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness.”

“Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.”

“Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.”