How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.

How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.

Your brain is much better than you think; just use it!

Threats alone, are the weapons of the threatened man.

A bird maintains itself in the air by imperceptible balancing, when near to the mountains or lofty ocean crags; it does this by means of the curves of the winds which as they strike against these projections, being forced to preserve their first impetus bend their straight course towards the sky with divers revolutions, at the beginning of which the birds come to a stop with their wings open, receiving underneath themselves the continual buffetings of the reflex courses of the winds.

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least, for they are thinking out inventions.

He who thinks little errs much.