In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. – Henry Miller, The Books in My Life
Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much. – Eugene Delacroix
Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole. – Leon Battista Alberti
