Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.

It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.

Knowledge is power.

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

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

First therefore let us seek the dignity of knowledge in the archetype or first platform, which is in the attributes and acts of God, as far as they are revealed to man and may be observed with sobriety; wherein we may not seek it by the name of Learning; for all Learning is Knowledge acquired, and all Knowledge in God is original: and therefore we must look for it by another name, that of Wisdom or Sapience, as the Scriptures call it.

Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.