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

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

The greatest work of an artist is the history of a painting.

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

Beauty is the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

Men are themselves the source of their own fortune and misfortune.

Nothing overshadows truth so much as authority.