"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

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To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.
More Samuel Butler (novelist) quotes
"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
"To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.
"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
"To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.
"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
"To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.