Comfort came in with the middle classes.

The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.

We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.

It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.

It is not by his mixing and choosing, but by the shapes of his colors, and the combination of those shapes, that we recognize the colorist. Color becomes significant only when it becomes form.

Art and religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstacy.

The starting-point for all systems of aesthetics must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion. The objects that provoke this emotion we call works of art.

Detail is the heart of realism, and the fatty degeneration of art.

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.

It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.

I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.

A dog is like a person—he needs a job and a family to be what he’s meant to be.

I will always need you, " I whisper. "All of this time I've waited for you. And you were never coming for me. Why did you let me wait for you?

God gives us always strength enough and sense enough for everything He wants us to do.

The only thing that holds true happiness is that moment when you're in it. Nothing can be controlled.

Conventional wisdom is not always the best wisdom.

Deadwood did not kill itself!

Your electric bills will go down.

He would have been handsome—in a serial-killer kind of way—if not for those tattoos.

Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

The whole idea of the prayers of the saints is that God's holiness, God's purpose, God's ways may be brought about irrespective of who comes or goes.