Wherever Men Are Noble, They Love Bright

That Country Is The Richest Which Nourishes The Greatest Number Of Noble And Happy Human Beings.

In My House There Is No Attempt Whatever To Secure Harmonies Of Colour, Or Form, Or Furniture.... I Am Entirely Independent For Daily Happiness Upon The Sensual Qualities Of Form Or Colour-when I Want Them I Take Them Either From The Sky Or From The Fields.

I Tell You (dogmatically, If You Like To Call It So, Knowing It Well) A Square Inch Of Man's Engraving Is Worth All The Photographs That Were Ever Dipped In Acid... Believe Me, Photography Can Do Against Line Engraving Just What Madame Tussaud's Wax-work Can Do Against Sculpture. That And No More. (1865)

Every Hue Throughout Your Work Is Altered By Every Touch You Add In Other Places.

Every Duty We Omit Obscures Some Truth We Should Have Known.