[Who will or Can ?endure ?such Humiliation (?either ?he ?is) dishonest ?or he is

?Insane]

Few have been taught to any purpose, who have not been their own teachers.

True!

[P 38] . . . to choose. . . models, . . . take the world's opinion rather than your own.

[Fools opinions & Endeavours destroy Invention!]

[P 40] A facility of drawing. . . cannot be acquired but by an infinite number of acts.

True

[P 41] . . . endeavour to draw the figure by memory. [And persevere] in this custom, . . . .

Good Advice

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. . . remember, that the pencil [i.e. paint brush] is the instrument by which. . . to obtain eminence

[P 42 ] The Venetian and Flemish schools, which owe much of their fame to colouring, . . .

[P 43] [Titian, Paul Veronese, Tintoret, the Bassans] Their sketches on paper are as rude as their

pictures are excellent in . . .harmony of colouring.

work>

. . . finished drawings. . . sold under [their] names. . . are [copies]

[P 47] . . . he who would have you believe that he is waiting for the inspirations of Genius, is in

reality at a loss how to begin; and is at last delivered of his monsters, with difficulty and pain.

A Stroke at Mortimer

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