Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.

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.

Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.

Poor is the man who desires a lot

Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.

Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting.

The eye encompasses the beauty of the whole world.