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"And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art."
"What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things."
"From this [drawing], the treasure secretly gathered in your heart will become evident through your creative work."
"No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty."
"If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle."
"I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men."
"As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art."
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