Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation.
Mauve is just pink trying to be purple.
To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.
To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.
It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.
Nature is very rarely right, to such an extent even, that it might almost be said that nature is usually wrong.