The Greatest Work Of An Artist Is

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.

The City Is Like A Great House, And The House In Its Turn A Small City.

Practice By Drawing Things Large, As If Equal In Representation And Reality. In Small Drawings Every Large Weakness Is Easily Hidden; In The Large, The Smallest Weakness Is Easily Seen.

Philosophers Say That Nothing Can Be Seen That Is Neither Illuminated Nor Colored.

A Common Error Of Ignorance Is To Maintain That What One Does Not Know Does Not Exist.