If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.

No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.

I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.

Sight is the noblest sense of man.

An artist of understanding and experience can show more of his great power and art in small things roughly and rudely done, than many another in a great work. A man may often draw something with his pen on a half sheet of paper in one day . . . . and it shall be fuller of art and better than another's great work whereon he hath spent a whole year's careful labor.