With few words I shall make thee understand my soul.

Love is a beautiful image Imagined or seen within the heart, The friend of virtue and gentility.

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.

An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

Good painting is nothing else but a copy of the perfections of God and a reminder of His painting. Finally, good painting is a music and a melody which intellect only can appreciate, and with great difficulty.