I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind.

Painting is possessed of divine power, for not only does it make the absent present, but also makes the dead almost alive.

It was never shameful to learn from any teacher things that are useful to know.

The greatest work of an artist is the history of a painting.

The function of the painter is to render... the visible surface so that at a certain distance... and position it appears... like the body itself.

The picture will have charm when each color is very unlike the one next to it.

What is painting but the act of embracing, by means of art, the surface of the pool?