I made sometimes pictures which were not up to my standard, but then it can only be said about a mediocrity that all his works live up to his standard.
“Indeed, strictly speaking, it is useless to attempt to express the nature of a thing abstractedly. Effects we can perceive, and a complete history of those effects would, in fact, sufficiently define the nature of the thing itself. We should try in vain to describe a man’s character, but let his acts be collected and an idea of the character will be presented to us.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Theory of Colours