The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.

The eye is the window of the human body through which it feels its way and enjoys the beauty of the world.

Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils

The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species.

Black is like a broken vessel, which is deprived of the capacity to contain anything.

I'm not contented to capture the world. I want to change it.