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 * 1) PAINTING ##

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Paint me as I am. If you leave out the scars and wrinkles, I will not pay you a shilling. Cromwell—Remark to the Painter, Lely. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Fields, Goldsmith, La Rochefoucauld) Hard features every bungler can command: To draw true beauty shows a master's hand. Dryden—To Mr. Lee, on his Alexander. L. 53. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Painting | page = 576 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Pictures must not be too picturesque. Emerson—Essays. Of Art. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Painting | page = 576 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = "Paint me as I am," said Cromwell, "Rough with age and gashed with wars; Show my visage as you find it, Less than truth my soul abhors." James T. Fields—Ore. a Portrait of Cromwell. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Cromwell) A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are. | author = Goldsmith | work = Retaliation^ L. 63. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Cromwell) | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Painting | page = 576 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = The fellow mixes blood with his colors. Said by Guido Reni of Rubens. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Opte}}) | topic = Painting | page = 576 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade and blacken out of sight or the canvas rot entirely away. Hawthorne—Marble Faun. Bk. II. Ch. XII. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Painting | page = 576 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh— To figure in the Catalogue, And woo the public eye. Something I must invent and paint; But oh my wit is not Like one of those kind substantives That answer Who and What? Hood—The Painter Puzzled. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Painting | page = 576 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum. He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves. Horace—Ars Poetica. XXX. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Painting | page = 576 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own. Mrs. Jameson—Memoirs and Essays. Washington Allston. ' Nequeo monstrare et sentio tantum. I only feel, but want the power to paint. Juvenal—Satires. VII. 56. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Painting | page = 576 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The only good copies are those which exhibit the defects of bad originals. La Rochefoucauld—Maxims. No. 136. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Painting | page = 576 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture. I-ongfellow—Michael Angela. Pt. II. 4. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Painting | page = 576 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Vain is the hope by colouring to display The bright effulgence of the noontide ray Or paint the full-orb'd ruler of the skies With pencils dipt in dull terrestrial dyes. Mason—Fresnoy's Art of Painting. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Painting | page = 576 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = I mix them with my brains, sir. John Opie. Answer when asked with what he mixed his colors. See Samuel Smiles—Self Help. Chap. V. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Gumo Reni}}) | topic = Painting | page = 576 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = He best can paint them who shall feel them most. | author = Pope | work = Ehisa and Abelard. Last line. Lely on animated canvas stole The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul. | author = Pope | work = Second Book of Horace. Ep. I. L. 149. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Painting | page = 576 }}