Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer.

The painter strives and competes with nature.

O time, swift robber of all created things, how many kings, how many nations hast thou undone, and how many changes of states and of various events have happened since the wondrous forms of this fish perished here in this cavernous and winding recess. Now destroyed by time thou liest patiently in this confined space with bones stripped and bare; serving as a support and prop for the superimposed mountain.

Savage is he who saves himself.

Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.

The most beautiful words of love are told in silence for a look.