If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.

It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.