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Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beaut...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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If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.

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

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

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Beauty without expression tires.

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Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

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Beauty without expression is boring.

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Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new powe...more

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Some thoughts always find us young and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

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We ascribe beauty to that which is simple which has no superfluous parts which exactly answers its ends.

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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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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