The First Virtue Of A Painting Is

Real Beauty In The Arts Is Eternal And Would Be Accepted At All Periods; But It Wears The Dress Of Its Century: Something Of That Dress Clings To It, And Woe To The Works Which Appear In Periods When The General Taste Is Corrupted.

[photography Is] In Some Ways False Just Because It Is So Exact.

In Every Art We Are Always Obliged To Return To The Accepted Means Of Expression, The Conventional Language Of The Art. What Is A Black-and-white Drawing But A Convention To Which The Beholder Has Become So Accustomed That With His Mind's Eye He Sees A Complete Equivalent In The Translation From Nature?

It Is Only Possible To Speak In The Language And In The Spirit Of One's Time.

Painters Who Are Not Colorists Produce Illumination, Not Painting.