"Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance."

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness."

"The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness."

"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard  Are sweeter."

"The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person and in the end they unite."

"It is a steadfast truth that beauty in art is the harmony of spirit, intellect, and craft."

"The art of living is discovering that the simplest acts of love resonate the loudest."

"Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane."