Genius is eternal patience.
Serene I fold my hands and wait.
The hand that follows intellect can achieve.
I live and love in God's peculiar light.
Do not fret, for God did not create us to abandon us.
Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few pursuits equal to painting, or in order not to corrupt themselves with the useless conversation of idle people, and debase the intellect from the lofty imaginations in which they are always absorbed.