Excellence Is Never Granted To Man, But

Could We Teach Taste Or Genius By Rules, They Would Be No Longer Taste And Genius.

The Great Use Of Copying, If It Be At All Useful, Should Seem To Be In Learning Color; Yet Even Coloring Will Never Be Perfectly Attained By Servilely Copying The Model Before You.

By Leaving A Student To Himself He May... Be Led To Undertake Matters Above His Strength, But The Trial Will At Least Have This Advantage: It Will Discover To Himself His Own Deficiencies And This Discovery Alone Is A Very Considerable Acquisition.

The True Test Of All The Arts Is Not Solely Whether The Production Is A True Copy Of Nature, But Whether It Answers The End Of Art, Which Is To Produce A Pleasing Effect Upon The Mind.

The Greatest Man Is He Who Forms The Taste Of A Nation; The Next Greatest Is He Who Corrupts It.