Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

A good memory, which nature has endowed us with, causes things long past to seem present.

The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species.

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

You grow in reputation like bread in the hands of a child.