The purpose of art is to stop time.

Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

The object of art like every other product creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.

No two cities have counted more with mankind than Athens and Jerusalem. Their messages in religion, philosophy, and art have been the main guiding lights of modern faith and culture.

Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson, rather than the son of Nature. It is always best to have recourse to nature, which is replete with such abundance of objects, than to the productions of other masters, who learnt everything from her.

Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.