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X "Every Painter in the course of his studies, feels in some degree desirous of knowing the nature and fitness of the colours he employs; and there are few Books that can give him much satisfaction in these respects."
Meriméo.

X "Could the experiments in which Reynolds failed, and those in which he succeeded, be collected and divulged, a considerable advantage must of consequence ensue; for good is a result compounded of the avoidance of error and the practice of right."
Practical Treatise

/ "Painters spend many years in the search after knowledge, which they might have attained in a little time, had they hit at first on the right path."
De Piles.

X "What has been diligently attained is too often assiduously hoarded; and pride and envy co-operate with Avarice to render the progress of knowledge difficult and expensive." 
On oil painting.

X "Practical information is strongly needed; and if the great Masters, whose manner of colouring has been approved, had communicated it in writing to posterity, so frank and generous a conduct would have produced more good Pictures than all the Lectures that have been delivered."
On oil painting.

X "The peculiar admixture of the Colours, used by Rembrandt, Rubens and Vandycke are very partially known to us, and are now rather distantly imitated than practically identified."
On oil painting.

X "The man who is daunted by difficulties, or wearied out in learning an Art, need not hesitate to throw it up at once. Let the idle and thoughtless student, who thinks it only necessary to wish to be an Artist in order to paint, look at the precision and exactitude, the skill and knowledge shown by all the great Masters from Raphael to Gerard Douw; to their numerous finished works, the product of years  

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"Do. for ditto for "On oil painting."