Our body is dependent on heaven and heaven on the Spirit.

He who has access to the fountain does not go to the water-pot.

The painter who draws by practise and judgment of the eye without the use of reason is like the mirror which reproduces within itself all the objects which are set opposite to it without knowledge of the same.

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain

... we might say that the earth has a spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil, its bones the arrangement and connection of the rocks of which the mountains are composed, its cartilage the tufa, and its blood the springs of water.

Ask advice of him who governs himself well.