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