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

My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to support himself….

Love and delight are better teachers than compulsion..

Geometry is the foundation of all painting..

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

Nature holds the beautiful, for the artist who has the insight to extract it. Thus, beauty lies even in humble, perhaps ugly things, and the ideal, w….

Sight is the noblest sense of man..

An artist of understanding and experience can show more of his great power and art in small things roughly and rudely done, than many another in a gr….

But I shall let the little I have learnt go forth into the day in order that someone better than I may guess the truth, and in his work may prove and….

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

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..

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

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

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. . ..

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

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..

Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art..

Some think that they know everybody, but they really don't know themselves..

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..

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