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Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

The nucleus is the fundamental organizing center of the cell.

The pain passes, but the beauty remains.

The artist who is not a man of his time is nothing.

My business is to paint what I see, not what I know.

The sleep of reason produces monsters.

I would rather be the first painter of common things than second of higher ones.

I have never had the good fortune to hear of a single authentic utterance by Vermeer.

What is the use of a beautiful statue if it is not placed in a beautiful setting?

All art is but imitation of nature.

Alas, that I cannot paint what I see.

Johannes de Eyck fuit hic.

For the sake of art, I would gladly suffer any hardship.

If you have faith, you will do things that are greater than you can imagine.

The knowledge of plants is the foundation of medicine, for from them we derive remedies for all ailments.

The ribosome is not just a molecular machine; it is the very architect of life itself.

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

April is the cruellest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing / Memory and desire, stirring / Dull roots with spring rain.

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.