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The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of color at long distances.

Abbreviators do harm to knowledge and to love.

The painter strives and competes with nature.

The lover is moved by the beloved object as the senses are by sensual objects; and they unite and become one and the same thing. The work is the first thing born of this union; if the thing loved is base the lover becomes base.

If on your own or by the criticism of others you discover error in your work, correct it then and there; otherwise in exposing your work to the public, you will expose your error also.

It reflects no great honor on a painter to be able to execute one thing well.

The variety of color in objects cannot be discerned at a great distance, excepting in those parts which are directly lighted up by the solar rays.

A single and distinct luminous body causes stronger relief in the objects than a diffused light; as may be seen by comparing one side of a landscape illuminated by the sun, and one overshadowed by clouds, and illuminated only by the diffused light of the atmosphere.

To speak ill of a good person is not truly good, all in all.

Ask counsel of him who rules himself well.

Men and words are ready made, and you, O Painter, if you do not know how to make your figures move, are like an orator who knows not how to use his words.

Men and words are ready made, and you, O Painter, if you do not know how to make your figures move, are like an orator who knows not how to use his words.

The vivacity and brightness of colors in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when it is illumined by the sun, unless the painting is placed in such a position that it will receive the same light from the sun as does the landscape.

Sculptured figures which appear in motion, will, in their standing position, actually look as if they were falling forward.

Many will be busied in taking away from a thing, which will grow in proportion as it is diminished.

The painter who draws by practice and judgment of the eye without the use of reason is like the mirror which reproduces within itself all the objects which are set opposite to it without knowledge of the same.

Those who become enamored of the art, without having previously applied to the diligent study of the scientific part of it, may be compared to mariners who put to the sea in a ship without rudder or compass and therefore cannot be certain of arriving at the wished for port.

I have solved what color is, however ; I still have no idea about what line is.

There are many kinds of beauty as people who possess it.

Make an effort to collect the good features from many beautiful faces.

Make an effort to collect the good features from many beautiful faces.

Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness and near ness, movement and rest.

Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness and near ness, movement and rest.

Man’s external form, marvelously constructed, is not much as compared with the divine soul that dwells inside that structure.