If we make mistakes in our first compositions and do not know them, we may not amend them.

I love this site. It was lovingly hand-shaped it. Your soul transformed this into this art. It was perfect. I have tried to create another equal to it... but to no avail, so I will just have to paint the Sistine Chapel.

Strive to preserve your health; and in this you will better succeed in proportion as you keep clear of the physicians, for their drugs are a kind of alchemy concerning which there are no fewer books than there are medicines.

life without love, is no life at all

The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

People of higher talent work, even if they seem to do nothing