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

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

Errors accumulate in the sketch and compound in the model.

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.

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

... the movements of the body reveal the movements of the soul.

Buildings have been made because of man.