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

Errors accumulate in the sketch and compound in the model.

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

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.

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

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.