No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.

Buildings have been made because of man.

Nothing overshadows truth so much as authority.

The picture will have charm when each color is very unlike the one next to it.

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.

I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind.

... the movements of the body reveal the movements of the soul.