Beauty is the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

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.

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

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

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

A common error of ignorance is to maintain that what one does not know does not exist.