If you put on more garments, the cold cannot reach you. Similarly, increase your patience and concentration and even great injuries cannot vex your mind.

Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.

The water which rises in the mountains is the blood which keeps the mountain in life.

Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.

You grow in reputation like bread in the hands of a child.

The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it.

O painter skilled in anatomy, beware lest the undue prominence of the bones, sinews and muscles cause you to become a wooden painter from the desire to make your nude figures reveal all.