The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such as guided thereunto ; for whereas founders of states, lawgivers, extirpators of tyrants, fathers of the people, were honoured but with the titles of demigods, inventors ere ever consecrated among the gods themselves.

If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

The bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own.

You can't be more horrific than life itself.

I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.