The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses.

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

One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.

Where there is most feeling, there is the greatest martyrdom.

The human being, creature of eyes, needs the image.

The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants, fruits, landscapes, countrysides, ruins, and awe-inspiring places.

We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us.