"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.
An undertaking beset with danger.
Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt.
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
Leave the rest to the gods.
There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot exist.