Part 17 (1/2)

CXCIV

Looked out for landscapes this evening; but although all around one is lovely, how little of it ork up into a picture! that is, without great additions and alterations, which is a work of too much time to suit my purpose just noant little subjects that will paint off at once How despairing it is to view the loveliness of nature towards sunset, and know the i it!--at least in a satisfactory h Then one feels the want of a life's study, such as Turner devoted to landscape; and even then what a botch is any attempt to render it! What wonderful effects I have seen this evening in the hay-fields! The warreyness of the unmade hay in furrows or tufts with lovely violet shadows, and long shades of the trees thrown athwart all, andaway one tint into another imperceptibly; and one in to-one most likely; the sun too, or if not, it is in quite the opposite quarter, and all that _was_ loveliest is all that is tamest now, alas! It is better to be a poet; still better a mere lover of Nature; one who never dreams of possession

_Ford Madox Brown_

CXCV

You should choose an old tumbledoall and throw over it a piece of white silk Then th you can see the ruin through the silk--its pro the them in the eye Make the prominences your mountains, the lower parts your water, the hollows your ravines, the cracks your streahter parts your nearer points, the darker parts your hly into you, and soon you will seethe to your fancy, and the result will be of heaven, not ofTi_ (Chinese, eleventh century)

CXCVI

By looking attentively at old and smeared walls, or stones and veined marble of various colours, you may fancy that you see in theures in quick e countenances, and dresses, with an infinity of other objects By these confused lines the inventive genius is excited to new exertions

_Leonardo_

CXCVII

Out by a quarter to eight to exa inoaks and all st, for I had determined to make a little picture of it However, Nature, that at first sight appears so lovely, is on consideration al intertangled foliage without losing half its beauties If imitated exactly it can only be done as seen from one eye, and quite flat and confused therefore

_Ford Madox Brown_

CXCVIII

To gaze upon the clouds of autu breeze stirring wild exultant thoughts;--what is there in the possession of gold and jewels to cohts like these? And then, to unroll the portfolio and spread the silk, and to transfer to it the glories of flood and fell, the green forest, the bloinds, the white water of the rushi+ng cascade, as with a turn of the hand a divine influence descends upon the scene These are the joys of painting

_wang Wei_ (Chinese, fifth century)

CXCIX

In the roo up two beautiful ss by Cozens: one, a wood, close, and very sole over Portici--very lovely I borrowed thehbour, Mr Woodburn Cozens was all poetry, and your drawing is a lovely specimen

_Constable_

CXCIXa

Selection is the invention of the landscape painter

_Fuseli_

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