The First Virtue Of A Painting Is

In Every Art We Are Always Obliged To Return To The Accepted Means Of Expression, The Conventional Language Of The Art. What Is A Black-and-white Drawing But A Convention To Which The Beholder Has Become So Accustomed That With His Mind's Eye He Sees A Complete Equivalent In The Translation From Nature?

Talent Does Whatever It Wants To Do. Genius Does Only What It Can.

God Is That Inner Presence Which Makes Us Admire The Beautiful And Consoles Us For Not Sharing The Happiness Of The Wicked.

The Artist Who Aims At Perfection In Everything Achieves It In Nothing.

[photography Is] In Some Ways False Just Because It Is So Exact.