Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory trace of past events, as the snail leaves its slime.

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.

Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.

The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.