Movement will fail sooner than usefulness.

The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish... because it draws water as its breath instead of air.

Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.

The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants, fruits, landscapes, countrysides, ruins, and awe-inspiring places.

But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and do not terminate in an actual experience.

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.

The greater the man's soul, the deeper he loves.