Buildings have been made because of man.

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

It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part.

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

The Arts are learnt by reason and method; they are mastered by practice.

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

Painting is possessed of divine power, for not only does it make the absent present, but also makes the dead almost alive.