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

Buildings have been made because of man.

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

Errors accumulate in the sketch and compound in the model.

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.

No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.

The function of the painter is to render... the visible surface so that at a certain distance... and position it appears... like the body itself.