Sight Is The Noblest Sense Of Man.

An Artist Of Understanding And Experience Can Show More Of His Great Power And Art In Small Things Roughly And Rudely Done, Than Many Another In A Great Work. A Man May Often Draw Something With His Pen On A Half Sheet Of Paper In One Day . . . . And It Shall Be Fuller Of Art And Better Than Another's Great Work Whereon He Hath Spent A Whole Year's Careful Labor.

He That Would Be A Painter Must Have A Natural Turn Thereto. Love And Delight Therein Are Better Of The Art Of Painting Than Compulsion.

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

Some Think That They Know Everybody, But They Really Don't Know Themselves.

And Since Geometry Is The Right Foundation Of All Painting, I Have Decided To Teach Its Rudiments And Principles To All Youngsters Eager For Art. . .