John La Farge

“Choose a subject that is within your power, that is on your own road.”

“Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.”

“The artist's trade is to deal in illusions.”

“The painter's vision is not a lens, it is a human eye.”

“The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.”

“There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.”

“All we know of the new is in the sense that it is a reassembling of the old.”