When painting the faces of young persons ... use the yolk of the egg of a city hen, because they have lighter yolks than those of country hens.

When you have practiced drawing for a while... take pains and pleasure in constantly copying the best works that you can find done by the hand of great masters.

If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from them.

Do not fail, as you go on, to draw something every day, for no matter how little it is, it will be well worthwhile, and it will do you a world of good.

If thou shouldst paint mountains in a good style and to look natural, take some large stones full of cracks and copy them.

Take note that, before going any farther, I will give you the exact proportion of a man. Those of a woman I will disregard, for she does not have any set proportion.

Mystery is the art of eliciting unseen things hidden in the shadow of natural ones... and serving to demonstrate as real the things that are not.

If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from it.

Philosophy's greatest task is to enlarge our sense of possibility.

It seemed, at that point, my greed and cunningness were being rewarded.

It’s not God who gave us moral laws, but this doesn’t make them less important

Zander was always sneaking off to the library to get more books ... Guy would read anything. Said books were more interesting than people.

Very astute, Harry, but the mouth organ was only ever a mouth organ." - Albus Dumbledore

In Christ the original image of God is restored, by faith in this world and by sight in the world to come.

You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.

What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission? The worship of the word "We.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

You were firing questions at me today, trying to get inside my head. You asked if I believe in God. I told you of course I do - I've always had a strong sense of self