Sculptured figures which appear in motion, will, in their standing position, actually look as if they were falling forward.

The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.

You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.

O Time with your teethy years! You swallow up all things little by little in a slow-motion, wrinkling process of dying.

Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease.

A day will come in which men will look upon an animal's murder the same way they look today upon a man's murder.

Never make heads straight on the shoulders, but turn them aside to the right or to the left, even though they look down, or upward, or straight ahead, because it is necessary for them to look lively and awake and not asleep. And do not depict the front or rear half of the whole person so that too much straightness is displaced, one half above or below the other half; and if you should wish to use stiff figures, do so only in portraying old people.