Whatever Trips You Make, You Must Still

If Deceiving The Eye Were The Only Business Of The Art... The Minute Painter Would Be More Apt To Succeed. But It Is Not The Eye, It Is The Mind Which The Painter Of Genius Desires To Address.

I Have Heard Painters Acknowledge, Though In That Acknowledgment No Degradation Of Themselves Was Intended, That They Could Do Better Without Nature Than With Her; Or As They Express Themselves, 'that It Only Put Them Out.

Few Have Been Taught To Any Purpose Who Have Not Been Their Own Teachers.

Taste Depends Upon Those Finer Emotions Which Make The Organization Of The Soul.

The Excellence Of Every Art, Must Consist In The Complete Accomplishment Of Its Purpose