All thoughts start from emotions.

The Medici created and destroyed me.

A luminous body will appear more brilliant in proportion as it is surrounded by deeper shadow.

It is the infinite alone that cannot be attained, for if it could it would become finite.

The eye, the window of the soul, is the chief means whereby the understanding can most fully and abundantly appreciate the infinite works of Nature; and the ear is second.

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

Music... is the shaping of the invisible.