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I would have artists be convinced that the supreme skill and art in painting consists in knowing how to use black and white... because it…

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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.

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