“Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own”
— Ovid
“Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own”
— Ovid
“The secret of joy in work is contained in one word: excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it”
“He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter”
“Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius”
“The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: The bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does”
“To create a little flower is the labour of ages”
“A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably”