We may call painting the grandchild of nature.
Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.
Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting.
All our knowledge originates in opinion.
Where there is most feeling, there is the greatest martyrdom.
Experience never misleads; what you are misled by is only your judgment, and this misleads you by anticipating results from experience of a kind that is not produced by your experiments.