I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.

Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.

If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down.

He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.

The natures and dispositions of men are, not without truth, distinguished from the predominance of the planets.