When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.
It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters.
Happy will they be who lend ear to the words of the dead.
One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.
Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
In time and with water, everything changes.
Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it.
In fact, whatever exists in the universe, in essence, in appearance, in the imagination, the painter has first in his mind and then in his hands ... it lies in his power to create them . . .
The eye is the window of the human body through which it feels its way and enjoys the beauty of the world.
Study the science of art and the art of science.
simplicity is the best sophistication
Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.
But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and do not terminate in an actual experience.
I am never weary of being useful... In serving others I cannot do enough. No labor is sufficient to tire me.
Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.
I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.
The natural desire of good men is knowledge.
The cat is nature's masterpiece.
Every man at three years old is half his height
One shall be born from small beginnings which will rapidly become vast. This will respect no created thing, rather will it, by its power, transform almost every thing from its own nature into another.
When you are alone you are all your own.
There is nothing that deceives us more than our own judgment when used to give an opinion on our own works. It is sound in judging the work of our enemies but not that of our friends, for hate and love are two of the most powerfully motivating factors found among living things.
He only moves toward the perfection of his art whose criticism surpasses his achievement.
The eye encompasses the beauty of the whole world.
Who sows virtue ought to reap honour.
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