Can't a person be born where they want to be born?
We look at a painting to know the painter; it's his company we are after, not his skill.
I am not arguing with you - I am telling you.
Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation.
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.
It is for the artist... in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to paint the man, in short, as well as his features.