If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.

Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it.

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.

Nature holds the beautiful, for the artist who has the insight to extract it. Thus, beauty lies even in humble, perhaps ugly things, and the ideal, which bypasses or improves on nature, may not be truly beautiful in the end.

And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art. . .

No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.

My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to support himself and his wife and family.