Nothing overshadows truth so much as authority.

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

It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part.

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

As ability goes, so goes our fortune.

... the movements of the body reveal the movements of the soul.

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