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“My works are the issue of simple and plain experience which is the true mistress.”
“We know well that mistakes are more easily detected in the works of others than in one's own.”
“He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature.”
“Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.”
“The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.”
“To enjoy - to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason.”
“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”
“All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.”
“Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.”
“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
“Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes.”
“Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.”
“Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.”
“God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.”
“Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.”
“There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.”
“A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.”
“It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”
“Truth was the only daughter of Time.”
“Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.”
“Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.”
“Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.”
“He who never puts his trust in any man will never be deceived.”
“Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.”
“How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.”