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.]
Sitting here with one’s knitting, one just sees the facts.
The smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense; they are forms, ideas which can be expressed unambiguously only in mathematical language.
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of Art.
A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.
