People love to be nice, but you must give them the chance.
In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.
Be a good craftsman; it won't stop you from being a genius.
With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder.
The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not yours and nothing that you would do would have any character.