A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

The first man Adam became a living being.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.