Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams with the imagination being awake?[Perchè vede piv certa la cosa l’ochio ne’ sogni che colla imaginatione, stando desto?]
To truly hate is an art one learns with time.
It is through Art, and through Art only, that we can realise our perfection.
Everything you can imagine is real.
A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
With us philosophy is not practised as a private art, as it was by the Greeks, but has a public place, and should therefore be employed only in the service of the state.
There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.[Nessuno corpo fia di tata magnitudine che per lunga distantia all’ochio non apparisca minore che’l minore obietto piv vicino.]
The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse — it will not submit to the mold of flattery.
The Foundation of Empire is Art and Science. Remove them or Degrade them, and the Empire is No More. Empire follows Art and Not Vice Versa.
The errors are not in the art, but in the artificers.
The difference between Art and Life is that Art is more bearable.
The admiration of a quality or of an art may be so strong as to deter us from aspiring to possess that quality or art.[Die Bewunderung einer Eigenschaft oder Kunst kann so stark sein, dass sie uns abhält, nach ihrem Besitz zu streben.]
