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

A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.

A man was desired to rise from bed because the sun was already up. He replied: "If I had as far to go and as much to do as he has, I should be up by now; but having but a little way to go, I shall not get up yet."

Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.

Music cannot be called otherwise than the sister of painting, for she is dependent upon hearing, a sense second to sight, and her harmony is composed of the union of its proportional parts sounded simultaneously, rising and falling in one or more harmonic rhythms.

Inequality is the cause of all local movements.

The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.