Every obstacle is destroyed through rigor.
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.
It is no small benefit on finding oneself in bed in the dark to go over again in the imagination the main lines of the forms previously studied, or other noteworthy things conceived by ingenious speculation.
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
There are many kinds of beauty as people who possess it.
The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.