Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it.

The sun gives spirit and life to the plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.

The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that plane

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

If you throw a stone in a pond... the waves which strike against the shores are thrown back towards the spot where the stone struck; and on meeting other waves they never intercept each other's course... In a small pond one and the same stroke gives birth to many motions of advance and recoil.

My body is not a tomb for animals.

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.