The worst thing the Government could have done for the nation was to allow these thousands of dub painters to put those frightful abortions called mu… - William Robinson Leigh

You start with a detailed charcoal drawing and then paint over that—the most distant thing first. If there are no clouds, the sky may take no more than a day. The distant figures may be done in a week. It gets more difficult as you approach the foreground—a large canvas may take four to six months altogether— but the most economical way is to finish as you go. At least that's what / was taught.

It is not how a picture is painted that matters, it is what you paint. Some modern artists have sunk to imbecility, not pitiable imbecility but vicious imbecility.

[Absinthe-drinking] ate away the brains of the French aristocracy and brought vulgar folk into control of the salons and everything else.