After painting comes Sculpture, a very noble art, but one that does not in the execution require the same supreme ingenuity as the art of painting, since in two most important and difficult particulars, in foreshortening and in light and shade, for which the painter has to invent a process, sculpture is helped by nature. Moreover, Sculpture does not imitate color which the painter takes pains to attune so that the shadows accompany the lights.

Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.

Wood feeds the fire which burns it.

Fix your course on a star and you'll navigate any storm.

The lie is so vile, that even if it were in speaking well of godly things, it would take off something from God's grace; and Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.

The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses.

Water is the driving force of all nature.