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

“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.”

“All great art is praise.”

“All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.”

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

“An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.”

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