What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.
Sight is the noblest sense of man.
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.
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.
Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing.