The painter who draws by practise and judgment of the eye without the use of reason is like the mirror which reproduces within itself all the objects which are set opposite to it without knowledge of the same.
Vows begin when hope dies.
Nothing will be left, Nothing in the air, nothing under the earth, nothing in the waters. All will be exterminated.
To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it.
Everything proceeds from everything else and everything becomes everything, and everything can be turned into everything else.
True and great love springs out of great knowledge, and where you know little you can love but little or not at all.
An artist who lacks the power of self-criticism accomplishes but little. It is good if your work stands higher than your own opinion of it; bad if it is on the same level. But it is a great disaster if your work stands lower than your judgment of it.
Savage is he who saves himself.
When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result is delight and pleasure and satisfaction.
To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.
The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree, and through that bad companionship must perish with it.
The variety of colour in objects cannot be discerned at a great distance, excepting in those parts which are directly lighted up by the solar rays.
The study of what is excellent is food for the mind and body.
The painter strives and competes with nature.
The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.
Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness and nearness, movement and rest.
Any color is more distinctly seen when opposed to its contrary: thus, black on white, blear near yellow, green near red, and so on.
I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils.
Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease.
One can have no more mastery over the environment, than one has over himself.