If the stars should appear but one night every thousand year... - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone."

"Every artist was first an amateur."

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."

"Pictures must not be too picturesque."

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."