When you are painting you should take a flat mirror and often look at your work within it, and it will then be seen in reverse, and will appear to be by the hand of some other master, and you will be better able to judge of its faults than in any other way.

I love this site. It was lovingly hand-shaped it. Your soul transformed this into this art. It was perfect. I have tried to create another equal to it... but to no avail, so I will just have to paint the Sistine Chapel.

When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.

Affective gestures pointing to things near either in time or space should be made with the hand not very far from the body of the person pointing; and if these things are distant, the hand of the painter should be more extended and the face turned toward the person to whom he is addressing the demonstration.

Putting your hand into a river, you simultaneously touch the last of what is passing and the first of what is coming.

When Fortune comes, seize her in front with a sure hand, because behind she is bald.

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