“The true light of nature is the human eye.”

Suggesting that nature becomes meaningful through human perception · Essay, Poetical Integrity

• Beauty
• Nature

“All the love and joy that a man has ever received in perception is laid up in him as the sunshine of a hundred years is laid up in the bole of the oak.”

Imagining remembered happiness as something stored permanently within the self · The Rod, the Root, and the Flower

• Joy
• Love
• Memory

“All artistic production involves a large element of lucky accident, of which the true artist alone knows how to avail himself.”

Recognising chance as part of creation while making artistic judgement decisive · Essay, Architectural Styles

• Art