"No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed..." — Albrecht Durer

Help us to recognize your voice, help us not to be allured by the madness of the world, so that we may never fall away from you, O Lord Jesus Christ.

My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to support himself and his wife and family.

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.

Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.