A man can do all things if he will.

A person can do anything if they only will it strongly enough.

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

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

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

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

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