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Humility counts for much, but it may be that vanity does not dispossess that admirable quality.
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Appreciation is the breath of life to the creative artist, and in spite of modern conditions, there is enough abroad to sustain…
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Universal appreciation of art... belongs to those countries and those ages which are not, or were not, ruled by materialism. Though travel…
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Beauty may be perceived in any scene by one with sympathy and understanding. Beauty is in the mind.
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Drawing is the representation of form - the graphic expression of a visual experience.
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The play of sunlight is amusement enough for a lazy man...
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In most natural scenes there is a prevailing colour, which the landscape painter must learn to identify, and which must prevail also…
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The student's ambition should be to become a painter's painter, rather than a popular painter. The approbation of fellow artists based on…
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When spring is here the sketcher begins to look over his equipment and relishes in anticipation the soothing hours he will spend…
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The syllogism art for art's sake refers to that kind of painting which disregards, or is contrary to, public taste.
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The artist reserves the right to remove a blot on the landscape, to change positions of things, to suit his composition, providing…
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The character of the subject must influence the choice of the method of its representation.
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Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.
— Jimmy Carter
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My ideal man is Benjamin Franklin-the figure in American history most worthy of emulation ... Franklin is my ideal of a whole…
— Isidor Isaac Rabi
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With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of…
— Thorstein Veblen
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Great masters merit emulation, not worship.
— Alan Cohen
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ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
— Henry Fielding
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News at Work is a vivid, inside look at the collision of print journalism and electronic media. Based on close access to…
— Unknown Author
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As parents, we should remember that our lives may be the book from the family library which the children most treasure. Are…
— Thomas S. Monson
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I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use.…
— Samuel Johnson
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True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.
— Hosea Ballou
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With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of…
— Thorstein Veblen
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