Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'

如果让我简单地定义一下艺术这个词，我应该把它叫做“透过灵魂的面纱，感官在自然中感知到的东西的再现”。“仅仅是对自然界的模仿，无论多么准确，都不能赋予人‘艺术家’的神圣称号。”