"Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste."
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"Seraphs share with thee Knowledge; but Art, O Man, is thine alone!"
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"The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he is hardly below even the poet."
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"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. In this great balance of utility, the spiritual service of art has no weight, and, deprived of all encouragement, it vanishes from the noisy Vanity Fair of our time."
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"Art is difficult, transient is her reward."
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"If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller."
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"I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals."
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"A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture."
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"...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars."
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"I see a funny guy who's imperfect, but has a great heart and no vanity when it comes to what he'll do to get a laugh. I see a guy who loves his art and loves his family, and who is willing to live and die for both."
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"Art is both creation and recreation."
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"I certainly am one of those people who is incredibly privileged to have an art career, which happened out of luck. Then luck kept happening. Besides that, things just move along in their own weird way."
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"I like Betsy Ross as a model, too, the quilting bee, sitting around with your friends making art, asking what they think, so that you get the benefit of everyone's opinions and so it's not just about you in your you-dom."
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"Undoubtedly ... there is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. What bears affinity to cunning is despicable."
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"The heavy odds against finding the desired... work of art in the mess and flux of life, as opposed to the serene orderliness of imagined reality, give a special tense dazzle and an atmosphere of tour de force to any photographs that succeed in the search."
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"Art is science in the flesh."
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"One must be a living man and a posthumous artist."
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"Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius."
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"O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives."
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"All our knowledge is symbolic."
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