Being engulfed in practice without delicate knowledge related to it, is in many ways like entering a ship without knowing where it is headed.

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

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs.

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

I have discovered that a screw-shaped device such as this, if it is well made from starched linen, will rise in the air if turned quickly.

The discovery of a good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star.

One's thoughts turn towards Hope.