Genius Is Supposed To Be A Power

There Is No Expedient To Which A Man Will Not Resort To Avoid The Real Labor Of Thinking.

Grandeur Of Effect Is Produced By Two Different Ways Which Seem Entirely Opposed To Each Other. One Is By Reducing The Colors To Little More Than Chiaroscuro... And The Other, By Making The Colors Very Distinct And Forcible... But Still, The Presiding Principle Of Both Those Manners Is Simplicity.

Whatever Trips You Make, You Must Still Have Nature In Your Eye.

A Painter Must Not Only Be Of Necessity An Imitator Of The Works Of Nature... But He Must Be As Necessarily An Imitator Of The Works Of Other Painters. This Appears More Humiliating, But Is Equally True; And No Man Can Be An Artist, Whatever He May Suppose, Upon Any Other Terms.

Nothing Can Come Of Nothing; He Who Has Laid Up No Materials Can Produce No Combinations.