"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."
"It is better decoration when, in painting, some monstrosity is introduced for variety and a relaxation of the senses and to attract the attention of mortal eyes, which at times desire to see that which they have never seen."
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Source: Vittoria Colonna: Her Life and Poems by Mrs. Henry Roscoe, (p. 169), 1868.
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