If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.

Time is the greatest innovator.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.

All colours will agree in the dark.

A much talking judge is an ill-tuned cymbal.

An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.