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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.

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

A Person Can Do Anything If They Only Will It Strongly Enough.

Painting Contains A Divine Force Which Not Only Makes Absent Men Present, As Friendship Is Said To Do, But Moreover Makes The Dead Seem Almost Alive.

Men Are Themselves The Source Of Their Own Fortune And Misfortune.