Art a revelation of man. Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms. All arts is but imitation of nature.
All nature is but art.
In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life. Let each man exercise the art he knows. The study of the beautiful is a duel in which the artist cries out with terror before he is vanquished. To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality. There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.