Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

The remedy is worse than the disease.

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

Science is but an image of the truth.

There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him "Was your mother never at Rome?" He answered "No Sir; but my father was."

It is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obsesses the understanding. Nor do the definitions or explanations wherewith in some things learned men are wont to guard and defend themselves, by any means set the matter right. But words plainly force and overrule the understanding, and throw all into confusion, and lead men away into innumerable and inane controversies and fancies.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.