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.

What is painting but the act of embracing, by means of art, the surface of the pool?

A man can do all things if he will.

Nothing overshadows truth so much as authority.

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.

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

The greatest work of an artist is the history of a painting.