O painter skilled in anatomy, beware lest the undue prominence of the bones, sinews and muscles cause you to become a wooden painter from the desire to make your nude figures reveal all.

To discover the soul living in somebody's body, we watch the surrounding of the body, and if it's messy and disordered, so is the soul.

Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

Sculptured figures which appear in motion, will, in their standing position, actually look as if they were falling forward.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose

The young man should first learn perspective, then the proportions of objects. Next, copy work after the hand of a good master, to gain the habit of drawing parts of the body well; and then to work from nature, to confirm the lessons learned.