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

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

The greatest work of an artist is the history of a painting.

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.

Beauty is the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

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

A man can do all things if he will.