Industry in art is a necessity - not a virtue - and any evidence of the same, in the production, is a blemish, not a quality; a proof, not of achievement, but of absolutely insufficient work, for work alone will efface the footsteps of work.

It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.

Over and over again did the Attorney-General cry out aloud, in the agony of his cause, 'What is to become of painting if the critics withhold their lash?

Art happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.

I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.

Nature is very rarely right, to such an extent even, that it might almost be said that nature is usually wrong.

Work alone will efface the footsteps of work.