I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind.
Painting is possessed of divine power, for not only does it make the absent present, but also makes the dead almost alive.
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.
I would have artists be convinced that the supreme skill and art in painting consists in knowing how to use black and white... because it is light and shade that make objects appear in relief.
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.
What is painting but the act of embracing, by means of art, the surface of the pool?
The greatest work of an artist is the history of a painting.
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