Nothing overshadows truth so much as authority.
The Arts are learnt by reason and method; they are mastered by practice.
Painting contains a divine force which not only makes absent men present, as friendship is said to do, but moreover makes the dead seem almost alive.
It was never shameful to learn from any teacher things that are useful to know.
Buildings have been made because of man.
A common error of ignorance is to maintain that what one does not know does not exist.