It Is Not Enough To Take Steps

To Venture An Opinion Is Like Moving A Piece At Chess: It May Be Taken, But It Forms The Beginning Of A Game That Is Won.

I Consider Him Of No Account Who Esteems Himself Just As The Popular Breath May Chance To Raise Him.

He Who Possesses Art And Science Has Religion; He Who Does Not Possess Them, Needs Religion.

As For What I Have Done As A Poet, I Take No Pride In Whatever. Excellent Poets Have Lived At The Same Time With Me, Poets More Excellent Lived Before Me, And Others Will Come After Me. But That In My Country I Am The Only Person Who Knows The Truth In The Difficult Science Of Colors-of That, I Say, I Am Not A Little Proud, And Here Have A Consciousness Of Superiority To Many.

The Nude Is The Perfect Expression Of Freedom. Freedom To Be.