My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.

Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness and nearness, movement and rest.

Everything comes from everything, and everything is made out of everything, and everything returns into everything.

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul.

Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and above all others, the most useful.

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.