Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.

The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity.

We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.

The nude is the perfect expression of freedom. Freedom to be.

Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.

That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.

With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.