The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.

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

I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind.

A common error of ignorance is to maintain that what one does not know does not exist.

No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.

A man can do all things if he will.

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.

It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part.

There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and perfect.

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

... the movements of the body reveal the movements of the soul.

I think maybe today a poem I hopeafter breakfast I start tryingpulling it out of my own gutmostly by force

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The Greatest” is a bite-your-tongue-book. Ultimately a tragic tale it is also immensely uplifting and easily the best footballer biography I have ever read.

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

January is my favorite month, when the light is plainest, least colored. And I like the feeling of beginnings.

When you get over 95, every day is your day.

Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.

Just as with the quartet, each part of a painting is telling a different story.

If you're lucky enough to have done well, then it's your responsibility to send the elevator back down.

My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.