Painting is possessed of divine power, for not only does it make the absent present, but also makes the dead almost alive.
The Arts are learnt by reason and method; they are mastered by practice.
As ability goes, so goes our fortune.
... the movements of the body reveal the movements of the soul.
I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind.
When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.