Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial.
Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity.
Heaven and earth, advantages and obstacles, conspire to educate genius.
When we idealize the real, we sacrifice to artistic fancy.
Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living.
Expression alone can invest beauty with supreme and lasting command over the eye.