life without love, is no life at all

As you cannot do what you want, Want what you can do

How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.

The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

O Time! consumer of all things; O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror, seeing the withered wrinkles made in her face by old age, wept and wondered why she had twice been carried away.

Black is like a broken vessel, which is deprived of the capacity to contain anything.