The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

True and great love springs out of great knowledge, and where you know little you can love but little or not at all.

I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.

The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants, fruits, landscapes, countrysides, ruins, and awe-inspiring places.

I have wasted my hours.

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.