Every part is disposed to unite with the whole, that it may thereby escape from its own incompleteness.

I'm not contented to capture the world. I want to change it.

Life, when is spent well, is long.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Though I may not . . . be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy - on experience.

O painter skilled in anatomy, beware lest the undue prominence of the bones, sinews and muscles cause you to become a wooden painter from the desire to make your nude figures reveal all.