Praise is the reflection of virtue.
Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things you make coagulate and take on just the shape you intend. Totally accurate marks, which are outside representational marks.
Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.