Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes.

And you who wish to represent by words the form of man and all the aspects of his membrification, relinquish that idea. For the more minutely you describe the more you will confine the mind of the reader, and the more you will keep him from the knowledge of the thing described. And so it is necessary to draw and to describe.

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own.

Good writing comes from good talent.

I woke up only to find the rest of the world asleep.

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