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Art [of healing] is long, but life is fleeting.
[Lat., Art longa, vita brevis est.]
Art [of healing] is long, but life is fleeting.
[Lat., Art longa, vita brevis est.]
The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.
The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.
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.
To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.
To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.
I shut my eyes in order to see.
I shut my eyes in order to see.
Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the read more
Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
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 is the signature of civilizations.
Art is the signature of civilizations.
The canvas glow'd beyond ev'n nature warm;
The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.
The canvas glow'd beyond ev'n nature warm;
The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.
