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

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

I will never tire of recommending the custom, practiced by the best architects, of preparing not only drawings and sketches, but also models of wood or any other material. These... enable us to examine... the work as a whole... and, before continuing any further, to estimate the likely trouble and expense.

Buildings have been made because of man.

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.

A man can do all things if he will.

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.