Nothing Overshadows Truth So Much As Authority.

Practice By Drawing Things Large, As If Equal In Representation And Reality. In Small Drawings Every Large Weakness Is Easily Hidden; In The Large, The Smallest Weakness Is Easily Seen.

Perhaps The Artist Who Seeks Dignity Above All In His 'historia', Ought To Represent Very Few Figures; For As Paucity Of Words Imparts Majesty To A Prince, Provided Histhoughts And Orders Are Understood, So The Presence Of Only The Strictly Necessary Numbers Of Bodies Confers Dignity On A Picture.

It Was Never Shameful To Learn From Any Teacher Things That Are Useful To Know.

As Ability Goes, So Goes Our Fortune.

The Picture Will Have Charm When Each Color Is Very Unlike The One Next To It.