Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

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average human “looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.

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Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

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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.

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There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

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The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

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Most men are of naught more use in their lives but as machines for turning food into sh*t.

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All thoughts start from emotions.

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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

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

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