''Those are the ones I mean,' said I; 'and see if they did not observe the principles of art, and if, by observing them, they failed to show their superiority and please all the world; so that the fault does not lie with the public that insists upon nonsense, but with those who don't know how to produce something else.
''Por ésas digo -le repliqué yo-; y mirad si guardaban bien los preceptos del arte, y si por guardarlos dejaron de parecer lo que eran y de agradar a todo el mundo. Así que no está la falta en el vulgo, que pide disparates, sino en aquellos que no saben representar otra cosa.