Few Have Been Taught To Any Purpose

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

All The Gestures Of Children Are Graceful; The Reign Of Distortion And Unnatural Attitudes Commences With The Introduction Of The Dancing Master.

An Eye Critically Nice Can Only Be Formed By Observing Well-colored Pictures With Attention.

It Is Impossible That Anything Will Be Well Understood Or Well Done That Is Taken Into A Reluctant Understanding, And Executed With A Servile Hand.

It Is Vain For Painters... To Endeavour To Invent Without Materials On Which The Mind May Work.