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.

Painting a picture is like trying to fight a battle.

The painter wanders and loiters contentedly from place to place, always on the lookout for some brilliant butterfly of a picture which can be caught and carried safely home.

This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of painting.

Every garden presents innumerable fascinating problems.

At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat.