Hitch your wagon to a star.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
There is properly no history; only biography.
Art is a jealous mistress.
Who so would be a man must be a nonconformist, He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
The love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.
In order to learn the important lessons in life, one must, each day, surmount a fear.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."
People only see what they are prepared to see.