Certainly, Nothing Can Be More Simple Than

I Wish You To Be Persuaded That Success In Your Art Depends Almost Entirely On Your Own Industry; But The Industry Which I Principally Recommend Is Not The Industry Of The Hands, But Of The Mind.

It Is To Titian We Must Turn Our Eyes To Find Excellence With Regard To Color, And Light And Shade, In The Highest Degree. He Was Both The First And The Greatest Master Of This Art. By A Few Strokes He Knew How To Mark The General Image And Character Of Whatever Object He Attempted.

It Is Impossible That Anything Will Be Well Understood Or Well Done That Is Taken Into A Reluctant Understanding, And Executed With A Servile Hand.

And He Who Does Not Know Himself Does Not Know Others, So It May Be Said With Equal Truth, That He Who Does Not Know Others Knows Himself But Very Imperfectly.

A Room Hung With Pictures Is A Room Hung With Thoughts.