Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.
Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.
Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species.