Perspective is nothing more than a rational demonstration applied to the consideration of how objects in front of the eye transmit their image to it, by means of a pyramid of lines. The Pyramid is the name I apply to the lines which, starting from the surface and edges of each object, converge from a distance and meet in a single point.

There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other. The spirit cannot die; and man, who shall know all and shall have wings.

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

Among the great things which are found among us the existence of Nothing is the greatest.

Avoid studies of which the result dies with the worker.

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

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.