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"Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired."
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"Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder."
"[B]eauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely to entail a great deal of trouble on the possessor."
"The voice of beauty speaks softly, it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls."
"The more you appreciate the things of beauty all around you, the more beautiful things will fill your life."
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"The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired."
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"Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things."
"Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal."
"France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside."
"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients."
"Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired."
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