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.

It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.

Lorenzo de' Medici seeks highly skilled, aesthetically oriented individual to conceive and implement several major public projects. You are a generalist with sound training in structural engineering, synthesis of pigments and Christian iconography. Some climbing involved

The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

If people knew how hard I worked at my art, they would not consider me a genius.