Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

A man was desired to rise from bed because the sun was already up. He replied: "If I had as far to go and as much to do as he has, I should be up by now; but having but a little way to go, I shall not get up yet."

If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.

Make yourself a master of perspective, then acquire perfect knowledge of the proportions of men and other animals.

Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

A man of supreme folly: his life flies away while he is merely hoping to enjoy it.