Excellence Is Never Granted To Man, But

Nothing Can Come Of Nothing; He Who Has Laid Up No Materials Can Produce No Combinations.

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.

Common Observation And A Plain Understanding Is The Source Of All Art.

Words Should Be Employed As The Means, Not The End; Language Is The Instrument, Conviction Is The Work.

I Do Not See In What Manner Practice Alone Can Be Sufficient For The Production Of Correct, Excellent, And Finished Pictures. Works Deserving This Character Never Were Produced, Nor Ever Will Arise, From Memory Alone.