What strikes the oyster shell doesn't damage the pearl.
The climax of absurdity to which art may be carried when led away from nature by fashion, may be best seen in the works of Boucher.
I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
Still I should paint my own places best; painting is with me but another word for feeling, and I associate "my careless boyhood" with all that lies on the banks of the Stour; those scenes made me a painter, and I am grateful; that is, I had often thought of pictures of them before ever I touched a pencil, and your picture ['The White Horse'] is one of the strongest instance I can recollect of it.
It will be difficult to name a class of landscape in which the sky is not the key note, the standard of scale, and the chief organ of sentiment.
Light - dews - breezes - bloom - and freshness; not one of which. . . has yet been perfected on the canvas of any painter in the world.
It is the soul that sees; the outward eyes Present the object, but the Mind descries. We see nothing till we truly understand it.
Nothing you will ever do in your lifetime is likely to make you as much money as buying a home and living in it.
We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. . . . We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
The wolf stared down at me, paws still on my chest, its shaggy tail thumping from side tot side and spraying us both with snow. It seemed like. . . it expected me to do something. Maybe my mind was completley gone, because there was only one thing I could thing of right now that might satisfy it. I reached up en awkwardly patted the side of its head, since that was al i could reach. "Nice puppy," I whispered, and passed out.
Who was the greatest business man ever. . . The greatest salesman? Advertiser? Who?. . . It was Jesus. . . Jesus was the founder of modern business. . . he picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organization that conquered the world!