“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”

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.

The most beautiful words of love are told in silence for a look.

The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.

Great love is born of great knowledge of the thing that is loved, and if you do not know it, you can love it little or not at all.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

I yearn for things, but at the same time I am just peaceful.

Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.

All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.

Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.

What I most wanted with you was our shot.

Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.

Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.