Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do.
There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.
Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.
God gives us always strength enough, and sense enough, for everything He wants us to do.
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know in life.
Of all God’s gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.
It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.
All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.
There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.
Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.