The Arts are learnt by reason and method; they are mastered by practice.

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

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

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

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

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.

It was never shameful to learn from any teacher things that are useful to know.