tand the taste that would reject the wildness of the
thorn and holly, or the child-loving labyrinths of the bramble, or
wholesome ranges of the downs and warrens fragrant with gorse.

No one requires of the painter that he even attempt to render the
multitude and infinitude of Nature; but that he _represent_ it through
the chastened elements of his proper instrument, with a performance
rendered distinctive and facile by study and genial impulse.

_Edward Calvert._

CXXXVIII

Modelling is parent of the art of chasing, as of the art of sculpturing.
Skilful as he was in these arts, he executed nothing which he had not
modelled.

_Pasiteles._

CXXXIX

Don't _invent_ arrangements, select them, leaving out what you consider
to be unimportant, and above all things don't be influenced in the
arrangements you select by any pictures you may see, except perhaps the
Japanese.

_C. W. Furse._

CXXXIXa

He alone can conceive and compose who sees the whole at once before him.

_Fuseli._

COLOUR

CXL

He who desires to be a painter must learn to rule the black, and red,
and white.

_Titian._

CXLI

There is the black which is old and the black which is fresh, lustrous
black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow. For the old
black, one must use an admixture of red; for the fresh black, an
admixture of blue; for the dull black, an admixture of white; for
lustrous black, gum must be added; black in sunlight must have grey
reflections.

_Hokusai._

CXLII

When you are painting put a piece of black velvet between your eye and
nature; by this means you will easily convince yourself that in nature
everything is blond, even the dark trunks of trees relieved against the
sky. Black, when it is in shadow, is strong in tone, but ceases to be
black.

_Dutilleux._

CXLIII

The Variation of Colour in uneven Superficies, is what confounds an
unskilful Painter; but if he takes Care to mark the Outlines of his
Superficie, and the Seat of his Lights, he will find the true Colouring
no such difficult matter: For first he will alter the Superficies
properly as far as the Line of Separation, either with White or Black
sparingly as only with gentle Dew; then he will in the same Manner bedew
the other Side of the Line, if I may be allowed the expression, then
this again and so on by turns, till the light Side is brightened with
more transparent Colour, and the same Colour on the other Si