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

A common error of ignorance is to maintain that what one does not know does not exist.

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.

Errors accumulate in the sketch and compound in the model.

A man can do all things if he will.

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

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.