The Artist Beholds In Nature More Than

What Is Character But The Determination Of Incident? What Is Incident But The Illustration Of Character?

The Power To Guess The Unseen From The Seen, To Trace The Implication Of Things, To Judge The Whole Piece By The Pattern, The Condition Of Feeling Life, In General, So Completely That You Are Well On Your Way To Knowing Any Particular Corner Of It-this Cluster Of Gifts May Almost Be Said To Constitute Experience, And They Occur In Country And In Town, And In The Most Differing Stages Of Education.

Really, Universally, Relations Stop Nowhere, And The Exquisite Problem Of The Artist Is Eternally But To Draw, By A Geometry Of His Own, The Circle Within Which They Shall Happily Appear To Do So.

Though There Are Some Disagreeable Things In Venice There Is Nothing So Disagreeable As The Visitors.

I Have Lived Too Long In Foreign Parts