In picture we never die,never decay or grow older - Jonathan Richardson

The pleasure that painting as a dumb art give us , is like what we have from misic, its beautiful forms, vlour and harmony are to the eye what sounds and the harmony are to the ear.

The theatre gives us representations of things , and there we see a sort of moving, speaking pictures but they are transient whereas painting remains and is always at hand.

Words paint to the imagination but every man forms the thing to himself in his own way.