Tintoretto attempted to fill the line of Michelangelo with color, without tracing its principle.
Expression alone can invest beauty with supreme and lasting command over the eye.
When we idealize the real, we sacrifice to artistic fancy.
Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity.
Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living.
Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial.