No man knows himself as an original.

No man knows himself as an original.

He who has no pleasure in looking up, is not fit so much as to look down.

The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.

Selfishness in art, as in other things, is sensibility kept at home.

The painter who is content with the praise of the world for what does not satisfy himself, is not an artist, but an artisan; for though his reward be only praise, his pay is that of a mechanic.

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.