If you can talk about it, why paint it?
Without friends the world is but a wilderness.
Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.
They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art.
The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.