As ability goes, so goes our fortune.
A man can do all things if he will.
The greatest work of an artist is the history of a painting.
When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.
What is painting but the act of embracing, by means of art, the surface of the pool?
It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part.