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And those who paint 'em truest praise 'em most.

As certain as the Correggiosity of Correggio.

From the mingled strength of shade and light A new creation rises to my sight, Such heav'nly figures from his pencil flow, So warm with light his blended colors glow. . . . . The glowing portraits, fresh from life, that bring Home to our hearts the truth from which they spring.

If they could forget for a moment the correggiosity of Correggio and the learned babble of the sale-room and varnishing Auctioneer.

A picture is a poem without words.

Paint me as I am. If you leave out the scars and wrinkles, I will not pay you a shilling.

Hard features every bungler can command: To draw true beauty shows a master's hand.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

"Paint me as I am," said Cromwell, "Rough with age and gashed with wars; Show my visage as you find it, Less than truth my soul abhors."

A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.

One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade and blacken out of sight or the canvas rot entirely away.

Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh-- To figure in the Catalogue, And woo the public eye. Something I must invent and paint; But oh my wit is not Like one of those kind substantives That answer Who and What?

He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.

He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.

I only feel, but want the power to paint.

The only good copies are those which exhibit the defects of bad originals.

The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture.

Vain is the hope by colouring to display The bright effulgence of the noontide ray Or paint the full-orb'd ruler of the skies With pencils dipt in dull terrestrial dyes.

I mix them with my brains, sir.

He best can paint them who shall feel them most.