When you look at a wall spotted with stains...you may discover a resemblance to various landscapes, beautiful with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees. Or again, you may see battles and figures in action, or strange faces and costumes, and an endless variety of objects which you could reduce to complete and well-drawn figures.

You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing.

The memory of benefits is a frail defence against ingratitude.

I love this site. It was lovingly hand-shaped it. Your soul transformed this into this art. It was perfect. I have tried to create another equal to it... but to no avail, so I will just have to paint the Sistine Chapel.

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

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