Lastly, because they are painters, they are probably immoral.
And this I prove in two ways.

First, painting is an art which merely addresses the eye; it does not in any particular exercise the moral sense.

And second, painting, in common with all the other arts, implies the dangerous quality of imagination.

A man of imagination is never moral; he outsoars literal demarcations and reviews life under too many shifting lights to rest content with the invidious distinctions of the law!' 'But you always say--at least, so I understood you'-- said madame, 'that these lads display no imagination whatever.' 'My dear, they displayed imagination, and of a very fantastic order, too,' returned the Doctor, 'when they embraced their beggarly profession.
Besides--and this is an argument exactly suited to your intellectual level--many of them are English and American.

Where else should we expect to find a thief ?--And now you had better get your coffee.