Pictures must not be too picturesque.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
Arthur Erickson
Rules and models destroy genius and art.
William Hazlitt
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Alexander Pope
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Francis Bacon