"Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate."
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"If you would learn to write, it is in the street you must learn it. Both for the vehicle and for the aims of fine arts, you must frequent the public square. The people, and not the college, is the writer's home. A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light."
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"Art is evidence of our most creative moment."
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"It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision."
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"Life too near paralyses art."
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"In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod."
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"Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales."
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"A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished member. He is to be dressed in arts and institutions, as well as in body garments. Now and then a man exquisitely made can live alone, and must; but coop up most men and you undo them."
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"We live ruins amid ruins."
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"There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame."
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"In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it."
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"There is no architect Can build as the Muse can; She is skilful to select Materials for her plan."
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"Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything short- livedor local, but abode by real and abiding traits."
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"Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes."
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"A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. It is the result or expression of nature, in miniature. For, although the works of nature are innumerable and all different, the result or the expression of them all is similar and single."
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"Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from a hundred charities?"
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"The eye is the best of artists."
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"Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will."
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"But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art."
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"I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings, and in spacious halls. I think, sculptureand painting have an effect to teach us manners, and abolish hurry."
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