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Art is the most beautiful of all lies.
Art is the most beautiful of all lies.
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.rn
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.rn
Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience — the union of life and peace.
Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience — the union of life and peace.
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.
Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.
Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has known.
Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has known.
His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand;
His manners were gentle, complying, and bland;
Still born to read more
His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand;
His manners were gentle, complying, and bland;
Still born to improve in every part,
His pencil out faces, his manners are heart.
All the arts which belong to polished life have some common tie,
and are connect as it were by read more
All the arts which belong to polished life have some common tie,
and are connect as it were by some relationship.
[Lat., Etenim omnes artes, quae ad humanitatem pertinent, habent
quoddam commune vinculum, et quasi cognatione quadam inter se
continentur.]
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own
nature into his pictures.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own
nature into his pictures.