So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.
Consult the Genius of the Place in all.
Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.
Genius creates, and taste preserves.
Genius involves both envy and calumny.
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.