Where do the Netherlanders go to learn anything new?
To Italy, always to Italy! What do they create in Flanders?
Portraits, portraits, nothing more.

Moor is great, very great in this department, but I take a very different view of art; it has higher aims.

My head is full of plans.

Wait, only wait! In Italy I shall learn to fly, and when I have finished my Holy Family and my Temple of Art, with all the skill I intend to attain...." "Then, then, what will happen then ?" "Then you will perhaps change your opinion and cease your tutoring, once for all.

This fault-finding, this warning vexes me.