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.

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.

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?

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

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

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