A Passion For His Art, And An

A Room Hung With Pictures Is A Room Hung With Thoughts.

Simplicity Is An Exact Mediumbetween Too Little And Too Much.

It Is But A Poor Eloquence Which Only Shows That The Orator Can Talk.

Excellence Is Never Granted To Man, But As The Reward Of Labour.

I Have Heard Painters Acknowledge, Though In That Acknowledgment No Degradation Of Themselves Was Intended, That They Could Do Better Without Nature Than With Her; Or As They Express Themselves, 'that It Only Put Them Out.