One Always Has To Spoil A Picture

There Is A Man Whose Qualities Can Be Savored By People Who Are Getting Old... The Painter Qualities Are Carried To The Highest Point In His Work: What He Does Is Done - Through And Through; When He Paints Eyes, They Are Lit With The Fire Of Life.

Of Which Beauty Will You Speak? There Are Many: There Are A Thousand: There Is One For Every Look, For Every Spirit, Adapted To Each Taste, To Each Particular Constitution.

Criticism Is Like Many Other Things, It Drags Along After What Has Already Been Said And Doesn't Get Out Of Its Rut.

If Painters Left Nothing Of Themselves After Their Deaths, So That We Were Obliged To Rank Them As We Do Actors According To The Judgment Of Their Contemporaries, How Different Their Reputations Would Be From What Posterity Has Made Them!

Even When We Look At Nature, Our Imagination Constructs The Picture.