1. “Sight is the noblest sense of man.”
2. “Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.”
3. “The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.”
4. “Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it.”
5. “Nature holds the beautiful, for the artist who has the insight too extract it. Thus, beauty lie even in humble, perhaps ugly things, and the ideal, which bypasses or improves on nature, my not be truly beautiful in the end.”
6. “Geometry is the foundation of all painting.”
8. “If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.”
7. “Some think that they know everybody but they really don’t know themselves.”
9. “No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.”
10. “Love and delight are better teachers than compulsion.”
11. “He that would be painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of Painting than compulsion.”
12. “I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.”
13. “As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.”
14. “Sane judgement abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care an diligence.”
15. “There is no man on earth who can give a final judgement on what he most beautiful shape may be. Only God knows.”
