Inequality is the cause of all local movements.

If you put on more garments, the cold cannot reach you. Similarly, increase your patience and concentration and even great injuries cannot vex your mind.

When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.

The young man should first learn perspective, then the proportions of objects. Next, copy work after the hand of a good master, to gain the habit of drawing parts of the body well; and then to work from nature, to confirm the lessons learned.

Those who are inspired by a model other than Nature, labor in vain.

I woke up only to find the rest of the world asleep.

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.