The knowledge of all things is possible

In fact, whatever exists in the universe, in essence, in appearance, in the imagination, the painter has first in his mind and then in his hands ... it lies in his power to create them . . .

Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest.

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs.

Weight is caused by one element being situated in another; and it moves by the shortest line towards its centre, not by its own choice, not because the centre draws it to itself, but because the other intervening element cannot withstand it.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

The Medici made me and the Medici destroyed me.