Buildings Have Been Made Because Of Man.

I Prefer You To Take As Your Model A Mediocre Sculpture Rather Than An Excellent Painting, For From Painted Objects We Train Our Hand Only To Make A Likeness, Whereas From Sculptures We Learn To Represent Both Likeness And Correct Incidence Of Light.

We Must Always Take From Nature What We Paint And Always Choose The Most Beautiful Things.

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

As Ability Goes, So Goes Our Fortune.

What Is Painting But The Act Of Embracing, By Means Of Art, The Surface Of The Pool?