It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have ins...
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Fine art is that in which the hand the head and the heart of man go together.
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Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.
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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
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Reading and writing are not education if they do not help people to be kind to all creatures
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It does not much matter that an individual loses two or three hundred pounds in buying a bad picture, but it is to be regretted that a nation should l...
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All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
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To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty
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And observe, you are put to stern choice in this matter. You must either make a tool of the creature, or a man of him. You cannot make both. Men were ...
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For, truly, the man who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.
