The organ of perception acts more readily than judgment.

Never make heads straight on the shoulders, but turn them aside to the right or to the left, even though they look down, or upward, or straight ahead, because it is necessary for them to look lively and awake and not asleep. And do not depict the front or rear half of the whole person so that too much straightness is displaced, one half above or below the other half; and if you should wish to use stiff figures, do so only in portraying old people.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

In time and with water, everything changes.

It's not enough that you believe what you see. You must also understand what you see.

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.