The earth is moved from its position by the weight of a tiny bird resting upon it.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

average human “looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.

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.

All our knowledge originates in opinion.

Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor.

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