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Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit; and maintains truth alone, that is gold.

No one should ever imitate the style of another because, with regard to art, he will be called a nephew and not a child of nature.

No one should ever imitate the style of another because, with regard to art, he will be called a nephew and not a child of nature.

Do not imitate one another’s style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson, rather than the son of Nature.

Do not imitate one another’s style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson, rather than the son of Nature.

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.

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.

To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.

Any color is more distinctly seen when opposed to its contrary: thus, black on white, blear near yellow, green near red, and so on.

Any color is more distinctly seen when opposed to its contrary: thus, black on white, blear near yellow, green near red, and so on.

For those colors which you wish to be beautiful, always first prepare a pure white ground.

For those colors which you wish to be beautiful, always first prepare a pure white ground.

It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall be a cause of suffering, and they shall possess neither the profit nor the beauty of the world.

The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

Of the original phenomena, light is the most enthralling.

The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.

Being engulfed in practice without delicate knowledge related to it, is in many ways like entering a ship without knowing where it is headed.

There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement.

It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.

The soul can never be corrupted with the corruption of the body, but it is like the wind which causes the sound of the organ, and which ceases to produce a good effect when a pipe is spoilt.

Love, Fear, and Esteem, Write these on three stones.

To discover the soul living in s o m e b o dy ’s b o dy, we w at ch t h e surrounding of the body, and if it’s messy and disordered, so is the soul.

What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art.