To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion—all in one.

All violent feelings … produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the ‘Pathetic Fallacy’.

Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.

I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public’s face.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.