As Ability Goes, So Goes

... The Movements Of The Body Reveal The Movements Of The Soul.

The Function Of The Painter Is To Render... The Visible Surface So That At A Certain Distance... And Position It Appears... Like The Body Itself.

As Ability Goes, So Goes Our Fortune.

Perhaps The Artist Who Seeks Dignity Above All In His 'historia', Ought To Represent Very Few Figures; For As Paucity Of Words Imparts Majesty To A Prince, Provided Histhoughts And Orders Are Understood, So The Presence Of Only The Strictly Necessary Numbers Of Bodies Confers Dignity On A Picture.

Painting Is Possessed Of Divine Power, For Not Only Does It Make The Absent Present, But Also Makes The Dead Almost Alive.