I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
I am always learning.
Your greatness is measured by your horizons.
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.
I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.
The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.