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.

I will never tire of recommending the custom, practiced by the best architects, of preparing not only drawings and sketches, but also models of wood or any other material. These... enable us to examine... the work as a whole... and, before continuing any further, to estimate the likely trouble and expense.

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

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

As ability goes, so goes our fortune.

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.