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painter, writer
One of the...
One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry,...
Genius is nothing...
Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing...
This is an...
This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, ...
When a man...
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
Source: In...
There surely is...
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the...
The explanation of...
The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a...
The only legitimate...
The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
Source: Correspondence...
Men who have...
Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if...
Art is a...
Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it...
The great difficulty...
The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it...