Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy;

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist.