Errors accumulate in the sketch and compound in the model.

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

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.

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

Buildings have been made because of man.

It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part.

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