Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.

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.

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.

In fact, whatever exists in the universe, in essence, in appearance, in the imagination, the painter has first in his mind and then in his hands ... it lies in his power to create them . . .