There it is, if you want to know it! That 's as good a profession of faith as another.

In future, so far as my things are not positively beautiful, you may set them down as failures.

For me, it 's either that or nothing.

It 's against the taste of the day, I know; we have really lost the faculty to understand beauty in the large, ideal way.

We stand like a race with shrunken muscles, staring helplessly at the weights our forefathers easily lifted.