A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs.
How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.
Putting your hand into a river, you simultaneously touch the last of what is passing and the first of what is coming.
Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.
I shall do down in history as the man who opened a door!
Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.
If you do not rest on the good foundation of nature, you will labour with little honor and less profit.
The grave will fall in upon him who digs it.
All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.
Being engulfed in practice without delicate knowledge related to it, is in many ways like entering a ship without knowing where it is headed.
The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants, fruits, landscapes, countrysides, ruins, and awe-inspiring places.
A long life is a life well spent.
The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
There are many kinds of beauty as people who possess it.
There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other. The spirit cannot die; and man, who shall know all and shall have wings.
The painter or draftsman ought to be solitary, in order that the well-being of the body not sap the vigour of the mind.
Lying on a feather mattress or quilt will not bring you renown.
The lie is so vile, that even if it were in speaking well of godly things, it would take off something from God's grace; and Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.
I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains along with the imprints of coral and plant and seaweed usually found in the sea. Why the thunder lasts a longer time than that which causes it and why immediately on its creation the lightening becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.
For those colours which you wish to be beautiful, always first prepare a pure white ground.
Poetry is superior to painting in the presentation of words, and painting is superior to poetry in the presentation of facts. For this reason I judge painting to be superior to poetry.
The painter strives and competes with nature.
The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it.
Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own, and the less so in proportion to the indiscretion of his behavior.
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