All thoughts start from emotions.
Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light.
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing.
Inaction saps the vigor of the mind.
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.