My body is not a tomb for animals.

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.

The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance

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.

One painter ought never to imitate the manner of any other; because in that case he cannot be called the child of nature, but the grandchild. It is always best to have recourse to nature, which is replete with such abundance of objects, than to the productions of other masters, who learnt everything from her.

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.