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Blake is damned good to steal from.

Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial.

The price of excellence is labor, and time that of immortality.

Tintoretto attempted to fill the line of Michelangelo with color, without tracing its principle.

Heaven and earth, advantages and obstacles, conspire to educate genius.

Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living.

Art, like love, excludes all competition and absorbs the man.

Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity.

Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.

Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.

Ancient art was the tyrant of Egypt, the mistress of Greece and the servant of Rome.

Raffael's drapery is the assistant of character, in Michelangelo it envelopes grandeur; it is in Reubens the ponderous robe of pomp.

When we idealize the real, we sacrifice to artistic fancy.

Art among a religious race produces reliques [sic]; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade.

Expression alone can invest beauty with supreme and lasting command over the eye.