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

First study the science, and then practice the art which is born of that science.

Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.

Drawing is based upon perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.

The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.

Look at light and admire its beauty. Close your eyes, and then look again: what you saw is no longer there; and what you will see later is not yet.

That painter who has no doubts will achieve little.

Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.

Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everything, in some way, connects to everything else.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

A clever man without wisdom is like a beautiful flower without fragrance.

A clever man without wisdom is like a beautiful flower without fragrance.

The painter must be solitary. For if you are alone you are completely yourself, but if you are accompanied by a single companion, you are only half yourself.

Nature alone is the master of true genius.

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.

Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship.

Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.