Errors Accumulate In The Sketch And Compound

I Prefer You To Take As Your Model A Mediocre Sculpture Rather Than An Excellent Painting, For From Painted Objects We Train Our Hand Only To Make A Likeness, Whereas From Sculptures We Learn To Represent Both Likeness And Correct Incidence Of Light.

I Shall Praise Those Faces Which Seem To Project Out Of The Picture As Though They Were Sculptured, And I Shall Censure Those Faces In Which I See No Art But That Of Outline.

As Ability Goes, So Goes Our Fortune.

There Is No Art Which Has Not Had Its Beginnings In Things Full Of Errors. Nothing Is At The Same Time Both New And Perfect.

Philosophers Say That Nothing Can Be Seen That Is Neither Illuminated Nor Colored.