As You Give Out, So Shall You

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.

Souls Will Never Ascend To Heaven Until The Sight Of Beauty Lifts Them There.

Art Is A Jealous Thing; It Requires The Whole And Entire Man.

So Now, From This Mad Passion Which Made Me Take Art For An Idol And A King I Have Learnt The Burden Of Error That It Bore And What Misfortune Springs From Man's Desire... The World's Frivolities Have Robbed Me Of The Time That I Was Given For Reflecting Upon God.

I Have Never Felt Salvation In Nature. I Love Cities Above All.