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.
It was never shameful to learn from any teacher things that are useful to know.
Nothing overshadows truth so much as authority.
Men are themselves the source of their own fortune and misfortune.
The greatest work of an artist is the history of a painting.