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

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs.

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

That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches.

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

Study me, reader, if you delight in me, because on very few occasions shall I return to the world, and because the patience for this profession is found in very few, and only in those who wish to compose things anew. Come, oh men, to see the miracles that such studies will disclose to nature.

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