Some think that they know everybody, but they really don't know themselves.
Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing.
Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it.
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.
Geometry is the foundation of all painting.
I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.