He only moves toward the perfection of his art whose criticism surpasses his achievement.
True and great love springs out of great knowledge, and where you know little you can love but little or not at all.
The eye encompasses the beauty of the whole world.
Who sows virtue ought to reap honour.
He turns not back who is bound to a star.
I wish to work miracles.
Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
The sun gives spirit and life to the plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.
Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life. Rodger Rosenblatt As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
The discovery of a good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star.
Not to appreciate life, all of life, is not to deserve it.
Having wandered some distance among gloomy rocks, I came to the entrance of a great cavern ... Two contrary emotions arose in me: fear and desire--fear of the threatening dark cavern, desire to see whether there were any marvelous things in it.
We might say that the earth has the spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil.
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
The soul is content to stay imprisoned in the human body... for through the eyes all the various things of nature are represented to the soul.
A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul.
Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.
We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us.
He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion.
It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.
The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.
The study of what is excellent is food for the mind and body.
A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs.
Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.
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