When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

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

Buildings have been made because of man.

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

The Arts are learnt by reason and method; they are mastered by practice.

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

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.