To discover the soul living in somebody's body, we watch the surrounding of the body, and if it's messy and disordered, so is the soul.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
To enjoy - to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason.
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.
The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species.