“He who thinks little errs much.”

Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.

A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job.

Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.

Being willing is not enough. We must do.

The five senses are the ministers of the soul.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Fix your course on a star and you’ll navigate any storm.

Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.

Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same.

I thought I was learning to live; I was only learning to die.

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

To become an artist you have to be curious.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says I’m possible!

The only thing that’s keeping you from getting what you want is the story you keep telling yourself.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.

One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong

Speak little, do much.