Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life and from their hands it comes in fair articulate forms to bless the world.

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

Joys divided are increased.

The temple of art is built in words.

Ideals are the world's masters.

Nature is the master of talents genius is the master of nature.

Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

First opportunity is the golden opportunity.

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.

Eloquence is the child of knowledge.

This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.

I think what distresses me most in my life is that I have so many ideas I consider exciting ideas that I will never live to execute because it takes me so long to execute.

If your virtue is especially radiant, it can be possible to open a pathway to the subtle realm and receive these celestial teachings directly from the immortals.

A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds.

You need intelligence, and you need to look. You need a gaze, a wide gaze, penetrating and roving - thats what's useful for art.