The general ideas which are expressed in sketches, correspond very well to the art often used in poetry. . . every reader making out the detail according to his own particular imagination. . . but a painter, when he represents Eve on canvas, is obliged to give a determined form, and his own idea of beauty distinctly expressed.
You must originate, and you must sympathize; yon must possess, at the same time, the habit of communicating and the habit of listening. The union is rather rare, but irresistible.