It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.

If people knew how hard I worked at my art, they would not consider me a genius.

What do you despise? By this you are truly known.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.