Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.

His works (taken together) are almost like a new edition of human nature.

Venerate art as art.

Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight, and converts every object into a little universe in itself.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted