There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.