Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

Experience never misleads; what you are misled by is only your judgment, and this misleads you by anticipating results from experience of a kind that is not produced by your experiments.

Sculptured figures which appear in motion, will, in their standing position, actually look as if they were falling forward.

Man's external form, marvellously constructed, is not much as compared with the divine soul that dwells inside that structure.

Your brain is much better than you think; just use it!

Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way increase your patience under great offenses, and they cannot hurt your feelings.

Being engulfed in practice without delicate knowledge related to it, is in many ways like entering a ship without knowing where it is headed.