The most praiseworthy form of painting is one that most resembles what it imitates.

A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.