Of several bodies, all equally large and equally distant, that which is most brightly illuminated will appear to the eye nearest and largest.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience

Thirst will parch your tongue and your body will waste through lack of sleep ere you can describe in words that which painting instantly sets before the eye.

It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters.

Small rooms or dwellings set the mind in the right path, large ones cause it to go astray.

If you throw a stone in a pond... the waves which strike against the shores are thrown back towards the spot where the stone struck; and on meeting other waves they never intercept each other's course... In a small pond one and the same stroke gives birth to many motions of advance and recoil.

Music cannot be called otherwise than the sister of painting, for she is dependent upon hearing, a sense second to sight, and her harmony is composed of the union of its proportional parts sounded simultaneously, rising and falling in one or more harmonic rhythms.