What Beauty Is, I Know Not, Though

Nature Holds The Beautiful, For The Artist Who Has The Insight To Extract It. Thus, Beauty Lies Even In Humble, Perhaps Ugly Things, And The Ideal, Which Bypasses Or Improves On Nature, May Not Be Truly Beautiful In The End.

Geometry Is The Foundation Of All Painting.

Simplicity Is The Greatest Adornment Of Art.

But I Shall Let The Little I Have Learnt Go Forth Into The Day In Order That Someone Better Than I May Guess The Truth, And In His Work May Prove And Rebuke My Error. At This I Shall Rejoice That I Was Yet A Means Whereby This Truth Has Come To Light.

As I Grew Older, I Realized That It Was Much Better To Insist On The Genuine Forms Of Nature, For Simplicity Is The Greatest Adornment Of Art.