The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose

Putting your hand into a river, you simultaneously touch the last of what is passing and the first of what is coming.

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.

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

When counting, try not to mix chickens with blessings.