I am not arguing with you - I am telling you.

We look at a painting to know the painter; it's his company we are after, not his skill.

The work of a master reeks not of the sweat of the brow - suggests no effort - and is finished from its beginning.

Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation.

Nature contains the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music. But the artists is born to pick, and choose, and group with science, these elements, that the result may be beautiful - as the musician gathers his notes, and forms his chords, until he brings forth from chaos glorious harmony

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?

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