The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.
simplicity is the best sophistication
Every obstacle is destroyed through rigor.
Nothing is more apt to deceive us than our own judgment of our work. We derive more benefit from having our faults pointed out by our enemies than from hearing the opinions of friends.
You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself.
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.