Why make ugly copies of perfect pictures?
Let those who wish to see her take a railway ticket, and save us academicians colours and canvas.

_Quant a moi_, the public must go to the mountains, as Mahomet had to do; for the mountains shall not come to the public." "One of your wilful paradoxes, Mr.Mellot; why, you are photographing them all day long." "Not quite all day long, madam.

And after all, _il faut vivre:_ I want a few luxuries; I have no capacity for keeping a shop; photographing pays better than painting, considering the time it takes; and it is only Nature reproducing herself, not caricaturing her.

But if any one will ensure me a poor two thousand a year, I will promise to photograph no more, but vanish to Sicily or Calabria, and sit with Sabina in an orchard all my days, twining rose garlands for her pretty head, like Theocritus and his friends, while the 'pears drop on our shoulders, and the apples by our side.'" "What do you think of all this ?" asked Valencia of Frank.
"That I am too like the Emersonian oyster here, very happy, and very useless; and, therefore, very anxious to be gone." "Surely you have earned the right to be idle awhile ?" "No one has a right to be idle." "Oh!" groaned Claude; "where did you find that eleventh commandment ?" "I have done with all eleventh commandments; for I find it quite hard work enough to keep the ancient ten.

But I find it, Mellot, in the deepest abyss of all; in the very depth from which the commandments sprang.