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

The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.

My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul.

Nature alone is the master of true genius.