A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul.

The organ of perception acts more readily than judgment.

O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?

Water is the driving force of all nature.

To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.

You grow in reputation like bread in the hands of a child.

Small rooms or dwellings set the mind in the right path, large ones cause it to go astray.