life without love, is no life at all

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses.

Here is a thing which the more it is needed the more it is rejected: and this is advice, which is unwillingly heeded by those who most need it, that is to say, by the ignorant.

To lie is vile, to tell truth is excellent, if not noble.

Those who are in love with practice without knowledge are like the sailor who gets into a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whether he is going. Practice must always be founded on sound theory, and to this Perspective is the guide and the gateway; and without this nothing can be done well in the matter of drawing.

Fear arises sooner than anything else.