He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

What induces you, oh man, to depart from your home in town, to leave parents and friends, and go to the countryside over mountains and valleys, if it is not for the beauty of the world of nature?

The painter strives and competes with nature.

Those who are in love with practice without knowledge are like the sailor who gets into a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whether he is going. Practice must always be founded on sound theory, and to this Perspective is the guide and the gateway; and without this nothing can be done well in the matter of drawing.

My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.

Life, when is spent well, is long.

One's thoughts turn towards Hope.