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The person who practices an art is an artist, not a samurai, and one should have the intention of being called a samurai.

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It is impossible that anything will be well understood or well done that is taken into a reluctant understanding, and executed with a servile hand.

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It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

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Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire.

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Simplicity is an exact mediumbetween too little and too much.

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Style in painting is the same as in writing; a power over materials, whether words or colors, by which conceptions or sentiments are conveyed.

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Every art, like our own, has in its composition fluctuating as well as fixed principles. It is an attentive inquiry into their difference that will enable us to determine how far we are influenced by custom and habit, and what is fixed in the nature of things.

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