As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim; So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth, eternal Reason, Which from Beauty takes its dress, And serene through time and season Stands aye in loveliness.

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else

It used to happen, and still happens, to me to take no pleasure in a work of art at the first sight of it, because it is too much for me; but if I suspect any merit in it, I try to get at it; and then I never fail to make the most gratifying discoveries,to find new qualities in the work itself and new faculties in myself.

In art the best is good enough.