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

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

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

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

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.

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

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