Thirst will parch your tongue and your body will waste through lack of sleep ere you can describe in words that which painting instantly sets before the eye.
The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.
The painter strives and competes with nature.
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing.
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.