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Love and delight are better teachers than compulsion.

Help us to recognize your voice, help us not to be allured by the madness of the world, so that we may never fall away from you, O Lord Jesus Christ.

Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.

Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing.

And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art.

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.

The new art must be based upon science - in particular, upon mathematics, as the most exact, logical, and graphically constructive of the sciences.

Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it.

No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.

There is no man on earth who can give a final judgment on what the most beautiful shape may be. Only God knows.

He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of Painting than compulsion.

The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.

Anyone who is among us today, may be buried tomorrow.

Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.

Geometry is the foundation of all painting.

The treasure secretly gathered in your heart will become evident through your creative work.

Sight is the noblest sense of man.

I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.

What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.