The first man Adam became a living being.

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.

Heaven-born, the soul a heavenward course must hold; beyond the world she soars; the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend