The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants, fruits, landscapes, countrysides, ruins, and awe-inspiring places.

The boundaries of bodies are the least of all things.

Fix your course on a star and you'll navigate any storm.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God.

Great love is born of great knowledge of the thing that is loved, and if you do not know it, you can love it little or not at all.