I Have Heard Painters Acknowledge, Though In

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

Simplicity Is An Exact Mediumbetween Too Little And Too Much.

Every Art, Like Our Own, Has In Its Composition Fluctuating As Well As Fixed Principles. It Is An Attentive Inquiry Into Their Difference That Will Enable Us To Determine How Far We Are Influenced By Custom And Habit, And What Is Fixed In The Nature Of Things.

A Mere Copier Of Nature Can Never Produce Anything Great.

Grandeur Of Effect Is Produced By Two Different Ways Which Seem Entirely Opposed To Each Other. One Is By Reducing The Colors To Little More Than Chiaroscuro... And The Other, By Making The Colors Very Distinct And Forcible... But Still, The Presiding Principle Of Both Those Manners Is Simplicity.