_Edward Calvert._


XXVI

Shall Painting be confined to the sordid drudgery of facsimile
representations of merely mortal and perishing substances, and not be as
poetry and music are, elevated into its own proper sphere of invention
and visionary conception? No, it shall not be so! Painting, as well as
poetry and music, exists and exults in immortal thoughts.

_Blake._


XXVII

If any man has any poetry in him, he should paint, for it has all been
said and written, and they have scarcely begun to paint it.

_William Morris._


XXVIII

Long live conscience and simplicity! there lies the only way to the true
and the sublime.

_Corot._