Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced a master like Raphael.

As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red.

No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always conscious.

Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.