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

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

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

The function of the painter is to render... the visible surface so that at a certain distance... and position it appears... like the body itself.

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.

Nothing overshadows truth so much as authority.

It was never shameful to learn from any teacher things that are useful to know.