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.

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.

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.

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

The picture will have charm when each color is very unlike the one next to it.

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

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.