O.A. Battista Quotes

The shortest distance between two jokes makes a perfect speech.

For you teach very clearly by your behaviour how slowly and how meagerly our senses proceed in the investigation of ever inexhaustible nature.

Placing the blame is a bad habit, but taking the blame is a sure builder of character

What is painting but the act of embracing, by means of art, the surface of the pool?

I shall praise those faces which seem to project out of the picture as though they were sculptured, and I shall censure those faces in which I see no art but that of outline.

Painting is possessed of divine power, for not only does it make the absent present, but also makes the dead almost alive.

The science of fossil shells is the first step towards the study of the earth.

Moral certainty is never more than probability.

Nothing adds to a person's leisure time like doing things when they are supposed to be done.

The picture will have charm when each color is very unlike the one next to it.

Far worse it is, To lose than never to have tasted bliss.

Buildings have been made because of man.

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

The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.

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

A man can do all things if he but wills them.