Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.
You grow in reputation like bread in the hands of a child.
There are many occasions when the muscles that form the lips of the mouth move the lateral muscles that are joined to them, and there are an equal number of occasions when these lateral muscles move the lips of this mouth, replacing it where it cannot return of itself, because the function of muscle is to pull and not to push except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
It is easier to contend with evil at the first than at the last.
Ask counsel of him who rules himself well.
Knowledge ... shall always bear witness like a clarion to its creator.
Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.
To enjoy - to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason.
The lover is moved by the beloved object as the senses are by sensual objects; and they unite and become one and the same thing. The work is the first thing born of this union; if the thing loved is base the lover becomes base.
Those who are inspired by a model other than Nature, labor in vain.
A deaf and dumb person who sees two men in conversation - may nevertheless understand from the attitudes and gestures of the speakers, how well their discussion is getting along.
Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.
The human being, creature of eyes, needs the image.
My body is not a tomb for animals.
Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.
Just as iron which is not used grows rusty, and water putrefies and freezes in the cold, so the mind of which no use is made is spoilt.
And you who wish to represent by words the form of man and all the aspects of his membrification, relinquish that idea. For the more minutely you describe the more you will confine the mind of the reader, and the more you will keep him from the knowledge of the thing described. And so it is necessary to draw and to describe.
The desire to know is natural to good men.
O admirable necessity! O powerful action! What mind can penetrate your nature? What language can express this marvel? None, to be sure. This is where human discourse turns toward the contemplation of the divine.
The memory of benefits is a frail defence against ingratitude.
If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer extremity to your ear, you will hear ships at a great distance from you.
Drawing is based upon perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye.
Study me, reader, if you delight in me, because on very few occasions shall I return to the world, and because the patience for this profession is found in very few, and only in those who wish to compose things anew. Come, oh men, to see the miracles that such studies will disclose to nature.
I woke up only to find the rest of the world asleep.
A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
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