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

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It does not much matter that an individual loses two or three hundred pounds in buying a bad picture, but it is to be regretted that a nation should l...more

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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