All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation when God and the world were alone together without man!
The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is...
But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave...
To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.