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Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

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All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees they must put their lives into the sting they give.

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The years teach us much, which the days never knew.

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a man only knows what he's experienced

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Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.

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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine

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Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece. It will come, as always, unannounce...more

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.

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Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator com...more

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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

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The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

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Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.

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There are all degrees of proficiency in the use men make of this instructive world where we are boarded and schooled and apprenticed. It is sufficient...more

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There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.