“A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.”

“Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.”

“A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.”

“Simplicity is an exact medium between too little and too much.”

“The following Discourse [on art, by Sir Joshua Reynolds] is particularly Interesting to Blockheads as it endeavours to prove that There is No such thing as Inspiration & that any Man of a plain Understanding may by Thieving from Others become a Mich Angelo.”