should I understand the taste that would reject the wildness of the
thorn and holly, or the child-loving labyrinths of the bramble, or
wholesome ranges of the downs and warrens fragrant with gorse.

No one requires of the painter that he even attempt to render the
multitude and infinitude of Nature; but that he _represent_ it through
the chastened elements of his proper instrument, with a performance
rendered distinctive and facile by study and genial impulse.

_Edward Calvert._


CXXXVIII

Modelling is parent of the art of chasing, as of the art of sculpturing.
Skilful as he was in these arts, he executed nothing which he had not
modelled.

_Pasiteles._


CXXXIX

Don't _invent_ arrangements, select them, leaving out what you consider
to be unimportant, and above all things don't be influenced in the
arrangements you select by any pictures you may see, except perhaps the
Japanese.

_C. W. Furse._