Sight is the noblest sense of man.

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

Love and delight are better teachers than compulsion.

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

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.

Sight is the noblest sense of man.

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.