What is a well-chosen collection of pictures, but walls hung round with thoughts?

Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory: nothing ca…

You must have no dependence on your own genius. If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply…

A mere copier of nature can never produce any thing great, can never raise and enlarge the conceptions, or warm the heart of the spectator.

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love and of thought, which, in the course of centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved.

The average English critic is a don manque, hopelessly parochial when not exaggeratedly teutonophile, over whose desk must surely hang the motto (presumably in…

I sometimes wondered what the use of any of the arts was. The best thing I could come up with was what I call the canary in the coal mine theory of the arts. T…