There Is No Greater Harm Than That

Souls Will Never Ascend To Heaven Until The Sight Of Beauty Lifts Them There.

What Spirit Is So Empty And Blind, That It Cannot Recognize The Fact That The Foot Is More Noble Than The Shoe, And Skin More Beautiful Than The Garment With Which It Is Clothed?

I Sometimes Set Myself Thinking And Imagining That I Find Amongst Men But One Single Art Or Science, And That Is Drawing Or Painting, All Others Being Members Proceeding Therefrom.

He Who Does Not Master The Nude Cannot Understand The Principles Of Architecture.

Lord, Grant That I May Always Desire More Than I Can Accomplish.