The five senses are the ministers of the soul.

If you are representing a white body let it be surrounded by ample space, because as white has no colour of its own, it is tinged and altered in some degree by the colour of the objects surrounding it

You grow in reputation like bread in the hands of a child.

A single and distinct luminous body causes stronger relief in the objects than a diffused light; as may be seen by comparing one side of a landscape illuminated by the sun, and one overshadowed by clouds, and illuminated only by the diffused light of the atmosphere.

If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

Avoid studies of which the result dies with the worker.