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

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

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

Poor is the man who desires a lot