The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. 669
If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. 2.45K
The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art. 670
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it. 625
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern. 680
