Make yourself a master of perspective, then acquire perfect knowledge of the proportions of men and other animals.

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

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

The sun gives spirit and life to the plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing.

Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ.

Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present.