Expression alone can invest beauty with supreme and lasting command over the eye.
Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial.
Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living.
When we idealize the real, we sacrifice to artistic fancy.
Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.
Heaven and earth, advantages and obstacles, conspire to educate genius.