“He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.”

“Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.”

“Queen and huntress, chaste and fair,Now the sun is laid to sleep,Seated in thy silver chair,State in wonted manner keep:Hesperus entreats thy light,Goddess excellently bright.Earth, let not thy env...”

“Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee.”

“For a man to write well, there are required three necessariesto read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.”

“There was never a great genius without a touch of madness.”

“To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.”

“art is risk made visible”

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”