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"Those who are enamoured of practice without science are like a pilot who goes into a ship without rudder or compass and never has any certainty of where he is going. Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory."
"Good writing comes from good talent."
"If the thing loved is base, the lover becomes base."
"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory."
"Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory."
"You don't get into trouble because of the things you don't know. It is the things you don't know you don't know that really get you into a mess."
"The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of."
"The discovery of a good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star."
"The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard."
"Men born in hot countries love the night because it refreshes them and have a horror of light because it burns them."
"One day the world will look upon research upon animals as it now looks upon research on human beings."
"What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art"
"The fox when it sees a flock of herons or magpies or birds of that kind, suddenly flings himself on the ground with his mouth open to look as he were dead; and these birds want to peck at his tongue, and he bites off their heads."
"If you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. Let us hope that."
"Man's external form, marvellously constructed, is not much as compared with the divine soul that dwells inside that structure."
"Fix your course on a star and you'll navigate any storm."
"Let not your rage or malice destroy a life."
"A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs."
"I wish to work miracles."
"One shall be born from small beginnings which will rapidly become vast. This will respect no created thing, rather will it, by its power, transform almost every thing from its own nature into another."