Everything proceeds from everything else and everything becomes everything, and everything can be turned into everything else.
Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.
Look at light and admire its beauty. Close your eyes, and then look again: what you saw is no longer there; and what you will see later is not yet.
If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.
Most men are of naught more use in their lives but as machines for turning food into sh*t.
That which has no limitations, has no form.
Inaction saps the vigor of the mind.
An artist who lacks the power of self-criticism accomplishes but little. It is good if your work stands higher than your own opinion of it; bad if it is on the same level. But it is a great disaster if your work stands lower than your judgment of it.
The five senses are the ministers of the soul.
We know well that mistakes are more easily detected in the works of others than in one's own.
Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it.
All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions.
Love, Fear, and Esteem, - Write these on three stones.
Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.
Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.
When counting, try not to mix chickens with blessings.
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
Water is the driving force of all nature.
He who walks straight rarely falls.
It should not be hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or ashes of a fire, or clouds, or mud or like places, in which...you may find really marvellous ideas.
Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
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