The greatness of art is not in the display of knowledge, or in material accuracy, but in the distinctness with which it conveys the impressions of a ….

The highest art is where has been most perfectly breathed the sentiment of humanity...Some persons suppose that landscape has no power of communicati….

The true end of Art is not to imitate a fixed material condition, but to represent a living motion..

The purpose of the painter is simply to reproduce in other minds the impression which a scene has made upon him. A work of art does not appeal to the….

The true use of art is, first, to cultivate the artist's own spiritual nature..

You must suggest to me reality---you can never show me reality..