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.
Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.
I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.
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.
Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age.
Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.
An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength.
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.
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.
When counting, try not to mix chickens with blessings.
The five senses are the ministers of the soul.
An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it.
Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.
That which has no limitations, has no form.
All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions.
Most men are of naught more use in their lives but as machines for turning food into sh*t.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.
Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more.
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.
Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.
He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
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