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• When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I…
• Beauty is the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of…
• I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind...
• A man can do all things if he will.
• Nothing overshadows truth so much as authority.
• We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.
• Painting is possessed of divine power, for not only does it make the absent present, but also makes the dead almost alive.
• The picture will have charm when each color is very unlike the one next to it.
• ... the movements of the body reveal the movements of the soul.
• Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive.
• The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.
• I will never tire of recommending the custom, practiced by the best architects, of preparing not only drawings and sketches, but also…

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