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- One painter ought never to imitate the manner of any other; because in that case he cannot be called the child of nature, but the…
- Nothing is more apt to deceive us than our own judgment of our work. We derive more benefit from having our faults pointed out by…
- This work should commence with the conception of man, and should describe the nature of the womb, and how the child inhabits it, and in…
- The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.
- 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…
- 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…
- The earth is moved from its position by the weight of a tiny bird resting upon it.
- Tears come from the heart and not from the brain
- O painter skilled in anatomy, beware lest the undue prominence of the bones, sinews and muscles cause you to become a wooden painter from the…
- I have discovered that a screw-shaped device such as this, if it is well made from starched linen, will rise in the air if turned…
- Experience never misleads; what you are misled by is only your judgment, and this misleads you by anticipating results from experience of a kind that…
- Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in…
- The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee...gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and…
- There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.
- Good writing comes from good talent.
- Demetrius was wont to say that there was no difference between the words and speech of the unskilled and ignorant and the sounds and rumblings…
- The young man should first learn perspective, then the proportions of objects. Next, copy work after the hand of a good master, to gain the…
- The light and heat of the universe comes from the sun, and its cold and darkness from the withdrawal of the sun.
- Very great charm of shadow and light is to be found in the faces of those who sit in the doors of dark houses. The…
- What induces you, oh man, to depart from your home in town, to leave parents and friends, and go to the countryside over mountains and…
- The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything…
- Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.
- The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that plane
- There are three aspects to perspective. The first has to do with how the size of objects seems to diminish according to distance: the second,…
- Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a…
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