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Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
High art alone is eternal and the bust outlives the city.
[Fr., L'Art supreme
Seule a l'eternite
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High art alone is eternal and the bust outlives the city.
[Fr., L'Art supreme
Seule a l'eternite
Et le buste
Survit la cite.]
His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand;
His manners were gentle, complying, and bland;
Still born to read more
His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand;
His manners were gentle, complying, and bland;
Still born to improve in every part,
His pencil out faces, his manners are heart.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience — the union of life and peace.
Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience — the union of life and peace.
Art thou a friend to Roderick?
Art thou a friend to Roderick?
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit read more
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.
