As you give out, so shall you receive.

The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires.

No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life.

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

Art is a jealous thing; it requires the whole and entire man.

Genius is eternal patience.

For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and whoever strives after it, is striving after something divine. True painting is only the image of the perfection of God, a shadow of the pencil with which he paints, a melody, a striving after harmony.