There is nothing so remote from vanity as true genius. It is almost as natural for those who are endowed with the highest powers of the human mind to produce the miracles of art, as for other men to breathe or move. Correggio, who is said to have produced some of his divinest works almost without having seen a picture, probably did not know that he had done anything extraordinary.

Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

In what we really understand, we reason but little.

Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.