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

Buildings have been made because of man.

I will never tire of recommending the custom, practiced by the best architects, of preparing not only drawings and sketches, but also models of wood or any other material. These... enable us to examine... the work as a whole... and, before continuing any further, to estimate the likely trouble and expense.

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.

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

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

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