He Who Follows Another Will Never Overtake

What One Has Most To Work And Struggle For In Painting Is To Do The Work With A Great Amount Of Labour And Sweat In Such A Way That It May Afterward Appear, However Much It Was Laboured Upon, To Have Been Done Almost Quickly And Almost Without Any Labour, And Very Easily, Although It Was Not.

Beauty Is The Purgation Of Superfluities.

I Was Never The Kind Of Painter Or Sculptor Who Kept A Shop.

Art Is The Gift Of God, And Must Be Used Unto His Glory. That In Art Is Highest Which Aims At This.

Do You Know That Women Who Are Chaste Remain Much Fresher Than Those Who Are Not?