The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor

I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.

I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.

A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.

It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.

The way one sees is also dependent upon one's emotional state of mind. This is why a motif can be looked at in so many ways, and this is what makes art so interesting.