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• Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Royal Academy, or the old masters… — James Joseph Sylvester
• I'm often asked by younger filmmakers, 'Why do I need to look at old movies?' I've made a number of pictures in… — Martin Scorsese
• The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes… — Carl Jung
• Where the Old Masters created an illusion of space into which one could imagine walking, the illusion created by a Modernist is… — Clement Greenberg
• Every so often every artist feels, 'I'll never paint again. The muse has gone out the window.' In 1985, I hardly painted… — Helen Frankenthaler
• Buy Old Masters. They fetch a much better price than old mistresses. — Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook
• The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he must make others see. Only when he no longer knows what… — Edgar Degas
• Some people collect paperweights, or pre-Columbian figures, or old masters, or young mistresses, or tombstone rubbings, or five-minute recipes, or any of… — Peg Bracken
• Family photos, pictures of groups, those are truely wonderful. And they are just as good as the old masters, just as rich… — Gerhard Richter
• In The Earthwise Herbal, Matthew Wood has revived the richness, depth, and dignity of the herbal medicine of the old masters, while… — Rudolph Ballentine
• About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; How well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone… — Wystan Hugh Auden
• The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe. — Edgar Degas

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