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In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire
In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire
The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.
The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.
Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.
Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.
 Art, as far as it is able, follow nature, as a pupil imitates his 
master; thus your art must read more 
 Art, as far as it is able, follow nature, as a pupil imitates his 
master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
 [It., L'arte vostra quella, quanto puote,
  Seque, come il maestro fa il discente;
   Si che vostr'arte a Dio quasi e nipote.] 
 It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize,
 And to be swift is less than to be wise.
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 It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize,
 And to be swift is less than to be wise.
  'Tis more by art, than force of numerous strokes. 
 Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they 
being both the servants of his read more 
 Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they 
being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection 
of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there 
were yet a chaos. Nature hath made one world, and art another. 
In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the art of 
God. 
 There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an 
art of writing.  
 There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an 
art of writing. 
Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still like muffled drums are beating read more
Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still like muffled drums are beating Funeral marches to the grave.