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

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

Buildings have been made because of man.

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

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.

As ability goes, so goes our fortune.