for to fix the fleeting, ever-changing world in the enduring picture of a single event, which yet represents the whole, is an achievement of the art of painting by which it seems to bring time itself to a standstill, for it raises the individual to the Idea of its species.
zeren mundu iheskorra, etengabe eraldatzen ari dena, prozesu partikularretan, zeinek hala ere osotasuna ordezten baitute, koadro iraunkorretan finkatzea pintore-artearen egitekoa da, zeinaren bitartez denbora geldiarazi egiten dela baitirudi, partikularra bere espeziearen ideiara jasotzen delarik.