Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it.
Geometry is the foundation of all painting.
Some think that they know everybody, but they really don't know themselves.
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.
If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.
Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.