1. “When we idealize the real, we sacrifice to artistic fancy.”
2. “Ancient art was the tyrant of Egypt, the mistress of Greece and the servant of Rome.”
3. “Life s rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious and judgement partial.”
4. “Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.”
5. “Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity.”
6. “Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living.”
7. “Heaven and earth, advantageous and obstacles, conspire to educate genius.”
8. “Expression alone can invest beauty with supreme and lasting command over the eye.”
9. “Nature is a collective idea and though its existence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.”
10. “Art, like love, excludes all competition and absorbs the man.”
