There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other. The spirit cannot die; and man, who shall know all and shall have wings.

Black is like a broken vessel, which is deprived of the capacity to contain anything.

The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it.

The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree, and through that bad companionship must perish with it.

The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul.

You don't get into trouble because of the things you don't know. It is the things you don't know you don't know that really get you into a mess.

Every man at three years old is half his height