A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.

The first degree of proficiency is, in painting, what grammar is in literature, a general preparation for whatever the student may afterward choose for more particular application. The power of drawing, modeling, and using colors, is very properly called the language of the art.

Simplicity is an exact mediumbetween too little and too much.

Nothing is denied to well-directed labor.

Every art, like our own, has in its composition fluctuating as well as fixed principles. It is an attentive inquiry into their difference that will enable us to determine how far we are influenced by custom and habit, and what is fixed in the nature of things.

The excellence of every art, must consist in the complete accomplishment of its purpose

The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.