Drawing is a means of obtaining and communicating knowledge

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

Greatness is the aggregation of minuteness; nor can its sublimity be felt truthfully by any mind unaccustomed to the affectionate watching of what is least.

Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant; every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space is false which represents nothing.

Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.

It does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it out of your own souls.