...movement, being themselves still sluggish and of little motion, they blame that thing which has greater and readier movements than those they make; saying that they seem possessed and masters of morris-dances. It is true that decorum must be observed, that is, that the movements be announcers of the motion of the mind of the mover; that is, if one is to be depicted who must show a fearful reverence, let it not be made with such boldness and presumption that the effect seems desperation, or that he makes a command of it, as I saw these days an angel who, in his announcing, seemed as if he wished to chase Our Lady out of her room, with movements that showed as much injury as could be done to a most vile enemy. And Our Lady seemed to wish, as if in despair, to throw herself down from a window. So keep it in memory not to fall into such faults.

Of this matter I will make no excuse to anyone, because if I do, one would believe I speak to him, for everyone who works in his own way excuses himself and thinks he does well; and this you will recognize in those who follow a practice without ever taking counsel from the works of nature, and are turned only to doing much, and for one soldo more of daily earnings would sooner stitch shoes than paint. But of these I do not extend myself in longer discourse, because I do not accept them into the art, daughter of nature. But to speak of painters and their judgments, I say that to him who moves his figures too much it seems that he who moves them as much as is fitting makes sleepy figures, and he who moves them little thinks that he who makes the due and fitting movement makes them possessed. And for this the painter must consider the manners of those men...