The function of the painter is to render... the visible surface so that at a certain distance... and position it appears... like the body itself.

Beauty is the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind.

A common error of ignorance is to maintain that what one does not know does not exist.

No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.

A man can do all things if he will.

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.

It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part.

There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and perfect.

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.

No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Life's as good as you make it, today we made it good.

I definitely have sympathy for people who are struggling. I've met with young Muslims who have told me about their struggles.

Allow me to congratulate you on your very astute powers of observation.

I feel like "Not For Long" was one for me just because I got to work with two people that I looked up to...

I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to listen to.

Our words should aim not to please, but to help.

I always feel great when I don't have clothes on.

He who leads troops has no right to think about himself.