The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it.

Where there are no women there are no good manners

Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

A joy shared is a joy doubled.

He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.

Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.