Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
The limiting surface of one thing is the beginning of another.
Depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves.
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.