"Art not only imitates nature, but also..." - Quote by Aristotle

“He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.”

“The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.”

“The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing.”

“Taste is the common sense of genius.”

“The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!”

“You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.”

“I like sometimes to take rank hold on life and spend my day more as the animals do. Perhaps I have owed to this employment and tohunting, when quite young, my closest acquaintance with Nature. They early introduce us to and detain us in scenery with which otherwise, at that age, we should have little acquaintance.”

“The substance of the universe is obedient and compliant; and the reason which governs it has in itself no cause for doing evil, for it has no malice, nor does it do evil to anything, nor is anything harmed by it. But all things are made and perfected according to this reason.”

“All truths wait in all things.”