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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
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Rebecca West

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Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
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Northrop Frye

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New arts destroy the old.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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No great artist ever sees things as they really are, if he did he would cease to be an artist.
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Oscar Wilde

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No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
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Samuel Johnson

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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
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Ludwig Van Beethoven

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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.
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Robert Schumann

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O, had I but followed the arts!
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William Shakespeare

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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
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Duke of Buckingham

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
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Jean Cocteau

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Novalis

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Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
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Frank Lloyd Wright

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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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Willa Cather

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
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Adolf Berle

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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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Andrei Voznesensky

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The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.
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Novalis

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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
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Cyril Connolly

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.
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Winkelmann

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
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Robert Schumann

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The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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