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- Nature contains the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music. But the artists is born…
- Truly color is vice! Of course, it can be, and has the right to be one of the finest virtues. Controlled by the strong hand…
- As light fades and the shadows deepen, all petty and exacting details vanish, everything trivial disappears, and I see things as they are in great…
- The work of a master reeks not of the sweat of the brow - suggests no effort - and is finished from its beginning.
- The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed…
- Art happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.
- Art happens no hovel is safe from it, no Prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about, and puny efforts to…
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