1. Painting is the only imitator of all visible things in nature. ——[Meaning] Leonardo da Vinci: "On Painting";

2. Painting is indeed a science and the legitimate daughter of nature, because it arises from nature. ——[Meaning] Leonardo da Vinci: "On Painting";

3. The works we love refer to the painting that was born from nature. Otherwise, all works are pretentious and empty. ——[French] Miller: "Threads";

4. There is nothing more real than the fantasy I created in the painting, the rest is just sand. ——[French] Delacroix, quoted from "On the Characteristics of Art";

5. Poetry is a painting with sound, and painting is a silent poem. ——[Ancient Greece] Simonides: "On the Characteristics of Art".