Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole. - Eugène Delacroix

The so-called conscientiousness of the great majority of painters is nothing but perfection laboriously applied to the art of being boring.

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.

The Natural History Museum is open to the public on Tuesdays and Fridays. Elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus; extraordinary animals! Rubens rendered them marvelously. I had a feeling of happiness as soon as I entered the place and the further I went the stronger it grew. I felt my whole being rise above commonplaces and trivialities and the petty worries of my daily life. What an immense variety of animals and species of different shapes and functions!