Nothing gets you behind faster than trying to keep up with people who are already there.
Never judge a work of art by its defects.
He who has no pleasure in looking up, is not fit so much as to look down.
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.
No man knows himself as an original.
Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.