"If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love."
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"The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting, sculpture, architecture... Sometimes... it seems to me that... all the works of the human brain and hand are either design itself or a branch of that art."
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"If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes."
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"I am still learning. (at age 87)"
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"Read the heart and not the letter for the pen cannot draw near the good intent."
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"To touch is to give life."
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"My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness."
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"I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible."
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"Souls will never ascend to Heaven until the sight of beauty lifts them there."
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"Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle."
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"So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden of error that it bore And what misfortune springs from man's desire... The world's frivolities have robbed me of the time That I was given for reflecting upon God."
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"How wrong are those simpletons, of whom the world is full, who look more at... color than at the figures which show spirit and movement."
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"The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone."
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"I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived."
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"Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."
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"Faith in oneself is the best and safest course."
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"Good painting is nothing else but a copy of the perfections of God and a reminder of His painting. Finally, good painting is a music and a melody which intellect only can appreciate, and with great difficulty."
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"However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man."
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"A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it."
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"True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it."
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