I feast on wine and bread, and feasts they are.
Do you know that women who are chaste remain much fresher than those who are not?
A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
Genius is eternal patience.
It is not sufficient merely to be a great master in painting and very wise, but I think that it is necessary for the painter to be very moral in his mode of life, or even, if such were possible, a saint, so that the Holy Spirit may inspire his intellect.
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.