116. He who depends for all upon his model, should treat no other subject but his model.
117. The praises lavished on the sketches of vigorous conception, only sharpen the throes of labour in finishing.
118. As far as the medium of an art can be taught, so far is the artist confined to the class of mere mechanics; he only then elevates himself to talent, when he imparts to his method, or his tool, some unattainable or exclusive excellence of his own.
119. None but the first can represent the first. Genius, absorbed by the subject, hastens to the centre; and from that point disseminates, to that leads back the rays: talent, full of its own dexterities, begins to point the rays before they have a centre, and aggregates a mass of secondary beauties.
120. The ear absorbed in harmonies of its own creation, is deaf to all external ones.