Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.

My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.

Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.

All our knowledge originates in opinion.

Especially learn how to see.

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

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.