He That Would Be A Painter Must

If A Man Devotes Himself To Art, Much Evil Is Avoided That Happens Otherwise If One Is Idle.

The New Art Must Be Based Upon Science - In Particular, Upon Mathematics, As The Most Exact, Logical, And Graphically Constructive Of The Sciences.

Sight Is The Noblest Sense Of Man.

No Single Man Can Be Taken As A Model For A Perfect Figure, For No Man Lives On Earth Who Is Endowed With The Whole Of Beauty.

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.