Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward.
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.
Life without experiencing beauty is not living at all.
In time and with water, everything changes.
You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the further you get.
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death.
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
The mind of a painter should be like a mirror; it should reflect all objects.
Painting is a mental thing rather than a visual one.
A stroke of genius often comes from what we once deemed useless.
You cannot see the world without seeing yourself.
Nature is the ultimate guide in all arts.
Every now and then, go away and be all alone.
Wisdom is the daughter of experience.
A good painter is to paint two main things: men and the working of man.
He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
Time is the most important thing.
There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, and those who do not see.
The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.
Blood and sweat are the price of success.
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.
The artist is the creator of beautiful things.
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
To develop a complete mind: Study the science of art; study the art of science.
A life without love is like a year without summer.
Every action has consequences, and every consequence is a lesson.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
The truth of things is the pleasure of knowing them.
Those who think they cant are often right.
To know how to think critically is the key to great insight.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
He who wants to be rich in a week is hanged instead.