Errors Accumulate In The Sketch And Compound

When I Investigate And When I Discover That The Forces Of The Heavens And The Planets Are Within Ourselves, Then Truly I Seem To Be Living Among The Gods.

Painting Is Possessed Of Divine Power, For Not Only Does It Make The Absent Present, But Also Makes The Dead Almost Alive.

Perhaps The Artist Who Seeks Dignity Above All In His 'historia', Ought To Represent Very Few Figures; For As Paucity Of Words Imparts Majesty To A Prince, Provided Histhoughts And Orders Are Understood, So The Presence Of Only The Strictly Necessary Numbers Of Bodies Confers Dignity On A Picture.

I Would Have Artists Be Convinced That The Supreme Skill And Art In Painting Consists In Knowing How To Use Black And White... Because It Is Light And Shade That Make Objects Appear In Relief.

The Arts Are Learnt By Reason And Method; They Are Mastered By Practice.