[P 65] . . . when [the Artist] has reduced the variety of nature to the abstract idea;

What Folly

his next task will be to become acquainted with the genuine habits of nature, as distinguished

from those of fashion.

[Is Fashion the concern of Artists The Knave Calls any thing found in Nature fit

for Art]!

[P 67] . . . [the painter] must divest himself of all prejudices. . . disregard all local and temporary

ornaments, and look only on those general habits. . . .

Generalizing in Every thing the Man would soon be a Fool but a Cunning Fool

[P 71] . . . a wrong direction. . . without ever knowing there was a nobler to pursue. Albert

Durer, as Vasari has justly remarked,

[Albert Durer would never have got his Manners from the Nobility]

would, probably, have been one of the first painters of his age, (and he lived in all era of great

artists,) had he been initiated into those great principles. . . .

What does this mean " Would have been" one of the first Painters of his Age" Albert

Durer Is!Not would have been! Besides. let them look at Gothic Figures & Gothic

Buildings, & not talk of Dark Ages or of Any Age! Ages are All Equal. But Genius is

Always Above The Age

[P 74] I [do not mean] to countenance a careless or indetermined manner of painting. For though

the painter is to overlook the accidental discriminations of nature,

Here he is for Determinate & yet for Indeterminate

he is to exhibit [general forms] distinctly, and with precision, . . .

Distinct General Form Cannot Exist Distinctness is Particular Not General

[P 75] A firm and determined outline is one of the characteristics of the great style in painting;

and. . . he who possesses the knowledge of the exact form which every part of nature ought to

have, will be fond of expressing that knowledge with correctness and precision in all his works.

A Noble Sentence

Here is a Sentence Which overthrows all his Book