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.
Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.
We, by our arts may be called the grandsons of God.
Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it.
He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.
The mole has very small eyes and it always lives under ground; and it lives as long as it is in the dark but when it comes into the light it dies immediately, because it becomes known;--and so it is with lies.