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It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have ins...more

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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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Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

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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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The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

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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