The limiting surface of one thing is the beginning of another.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

The mole has very small eyes and it always lives under ground; and it lives as long as it is in the dark but when it comes into the light it dies immediately, because it becomes known;--and so it is with lies.

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

Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.

How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.

How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.