All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.

Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly

Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.

Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes...and whatever lies upon the heart.

Friends are thieves of time.

Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.

An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact.