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Fine art is that in which the hand the head and the heart of man go together.

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We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

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No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

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All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

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All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.

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To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty