I shall praise those faces which seem to project out of the picture as though they were sculptured, and I shall censure those faces in which I see no art but that of outline.

Beauty is the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind.

A common error of ignorance is to maintain that what one does not know does not exist.

No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.

A man can do all things if he will.

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.

It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part.

There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and perfect.

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.

You know you made it, when people you know, tell people they know, that you know them.

this life has been a landscape of painand still, flowersbloom in it.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

I am afraid of the worst, but I am not sure what that is.

She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules; Charms by accepting, by submitting, sways, Yet has her humor most, when she obeys.

I think it's weird that people think someone who's not a politician could be the mayor of Chicago.

I'll never let your head hit the bed without my hand behind it.

"The horror of that moment," the King went on, "I shall never, never forget!" "You will, though," the Queen said, "if you don't make a memorandum of it."

Morality did not keep well; it required stable conditions; it was costly; it was subject to variations, and the market for it was uncertain.

If I had my way, I'd always be onstage. But I won't always be able to be onstage.