Not but I think a painter may make a better face than ever was; but he must do it by a kind of felicity( as a musician that maketh(3) an excellent air in music), and not by rule.

• 余不否认画像之美可以超绝尘寰，但此美必为神笔，而非可依规矩得之者，乐师之谱成名曲亦莫不皆然。