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- I am convinced that this is the only means of advancing science, of clearing the mind from a confused heap of contradictory observations, that do…
- It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.
- The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually…
- I have heard painters acknowledge, though in that acknowledgment no degradation of themselves was intended, that they could do better without nature than with her;…
- 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…
- An eye critically nice can only be formed by observing well-colored pictures with attention.
- If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art... the minute painter would be more apt to succeed. But it is not the…
- The painter of genius will not waste a moment upon those smaller objects which only serve to catch the sense, to divide the attention, and…
- Raphael and Titian seem to have looked at Nature for different purposes; they both had the power of extending their view to the whole; but…
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