Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Nothing great was ever accomplished without inspiration.

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

[A]rt can never give the rules that make an art.

The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.

A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.

WORDS IN THE HEART CANNOT BE TAKEN.

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

Nothing can contain the limitless spirit of a boundless heart.

The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.

Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.

Art should never be an answer but a question.

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

None but a poet can understand a poet; none but a romantic spirit transported with poetry and consecrated in the Holy of Holies an comprehend what the ordained utters out of his inspiration.