When we idealize the real, we sacrifice to artistic fancy.
Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity.
Heaven and earth, advantages and obstacles, conspire to educate genius.
Tintoretto attempted to fill the line of Michelangelo with color, without tracing its principle.
Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial.
Expression alone can invest beauty with supreme and lasting command over the eye.