In the first place you must study drawing for at least one year; then you must remain with a master at the workshop for the space of six years at lea….

If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment fr….

Mystery is the art of eliciting unseen things hidden in the shadow of natural ones... and serving to demonstrate as real the things that are not..

Take note that, before going any farther, I will give you the exact proportion of a man. Those of a woman I will disregard, for she does not have any….

When you have practiced drawing for a while... take pains and pleasure in constantly copying the best works that you can find done by the hand of gre….

The most perfect steersman that you can have, and the best helm, lies in the triumphal gateway of copying from nature. And this outdoes all other mod….

When painting the faces of young persons ... use the yolk of the egg of a city hen, because they have lighter yolks than those of country hens..

If thou shouldst paint mountains in a good style and to look natural, take some large stones full of cracks and copy them..

Now then, you of noble mind, who love this profession, come at once to art and accept these precepts: enthusiasm , reverence, obedience, and persever….

If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nouris….

Do not fail, as you go on, to draw something every day, for no matter how little it is, it will be well worthwhile, and it will do you a world of goo….

This is an occupation known as painting, which calls for imagination, and skill of hand, in order to discover things not seen, hiding themselves unde….

If you set out to copy after one master today and after one tomorrow, you will not acquire the style of either one or the other, and you will inevita….