Buildings have been made because of man.

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

Errors accumulate in the sketch and compound in the model.

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

A common error of ignorance is to maintain that what one does not know does not exist.

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

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.