One Who Does Not Know When To

The Eye Is Continually Influenced By What It Cannot Detect; Nay, It Is Not Going Too Far, To Say That It Is Most Influenced By What It Detects Least. Let The Painter Define, If He Can, The Variations Of Lines On Which Depend The Change Of Expression In The Human Countenance.

If The Thing Is Impossible, You Need Not Trouble Yourselves About It; If Possible, Try For It.

It’s Unwise To Pay Too Much, But It’s Worse To Pay Too Little.

Of All The Things That Oppress Me, This Sense Of The Evil Working Of Nature Herself -my Disgust At Her Barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter Mockery Of Herself -is The Most Desolating.

English Artists Are Usually Entirely Ruined By Residence In Italy.