“Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.”
“I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.”
“Not even the gods fight against necessity.”
“The Athenians, front-fighters of the Greeks, at Marathon destroyed the power of the gold-bearing Medes.”
“Tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.”
“Painting is silent poetry.”