What is painting but the act of embracing, by means of art, the surface of the pool?
The greatest work of an artist is the history of a painting.
The Arts are learnt by reason and method; they are mastered by practice.
Errors accumulate in the sketch and compound in the model.
It was never shameful to learn from any teacher things that are useful to know.
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.