"Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'"

Nature, Art, Soul, Imitation

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"Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'"

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"Clear skies do not promise rain."

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"Spring dances with joy in every flower and in every bud letting us know that changes are beautiful and an inevitable law of life."

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"Every flower returns to sleep with the earth."

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"Spring is the only season that flutters in on gentle wings and builds nests in our hearts."

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"A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread very thin on mud."

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"I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of spring, I remember life exists..."

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"When I am in nature, my heart dances with butterflies and sings along with flowers."

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"A planet without birds is a planet without angels!"

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"I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched."

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"I intend to put up with nothing that I can put."

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"I have graven it within the hills, and my vengeance upon the dust within the rock."

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"The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led."

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"With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion."

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"I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago."

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"That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward."

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"And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?"

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"Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart - one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgment, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?"

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