"The imagination becomes a camera obscura, only with this difference, that the camera represents objects as they really are; while the imagination, impressed with the most beautiful scenes, and chastened by rules of art, forms it's pictures, not only from the most admirable parts of nature; but in the best taste."
Three Essays
<u>Three Essays: on Picturesque Beauty; on Picturesque Travel; and on Sketching Landscape: to Which Is Added a Poem, on Landscape Painting</u>. (London: Printed for R. Blamire, 1792). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004863369.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;