However Rich I May Have Been, I

Whenever A Great Painter... Does A Work Which Appears To Be False And Lying, That Falsity Is Very True.

Every Block Of Stone Has A Statue Inside It And It Is The Task Of The Sculptor To Discover It.

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.

True Art Is Made Noble And Religious By The Mind Producing It.

I Already Have A Wife Who Is Too Much For Me.. She Is My Art, And My Works Are My Children.