No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.
... the movements of the body reveal the movements of the soul.
It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part.
Errors accumulate in the sketch and compound in the model.
The greatest work of an artist is the history of a painting.
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.