Style in painting is the same as in writing; a power over materials, whether words or colors, by which conceptions or sentiments are conveyed.
Nothing is denied to well-directed labor.
It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.
Reform is a work of time; a national taste, however wrong it may be, cannot be totally changed at once.
Taste depends upon those finer emotions which make the organization of the soul.
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.