I Criticise By Creation, Not By Finding

With Few Words I Shall Make Thee Understand My Soul.

If We Have Been Pleased With Life, We Should Not Be Displeased With Death, Since It Comes From The Hand Of The Same Master.

Painters Are Not In Any Way Unsociable Through Pride, But Either Because They Find Few Pursuits Equal To Painting, Or In Order Not To Corrupt Themselves With The Useless Conversation Of Idle People, And Debase The Intellect From The Lofty Imaginations In Which They Are Always Absorbed.

Souls Will Never Ascend To Heaven Until The Sight Of Beauty Lifts Them There.

Patience Is Eternal Genius