Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.
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One cannot but wonder at this constantly recurring phrase getting something for nothing, as if it were the peculiar and perverse ambition of disturbers of society. Except for our animal outfit, practically all we have is handed us gratis. Can the most complacent reactionary flatter himself that he invented the art of writing or the printing press, or discovered his religious, economic, and moral convictions, or any of the devices which supply him with meat and raiment or any of the sources of such pleasure as he may derive from literature or the fine arts? In short, civilization is little else than getting something for nothing.
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A Carpaccio in Venice, la Berma in Phèdre, masterpieces of visual or theatrical art that the prestige surrounding them made so alive, that is...
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Those summer days which some of my contemporaries devoted to the fine arts in Boston or Rome, and others to contemplation in India, and others...
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A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.
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In this country, the village should in some respects take the place of the nobleman of Europe. It should be the patron of the fine arts. It is...
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Nature predominates over the human will in all works of even the fine arts, in all that respects their material and external circumstances. Na...
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Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine arts; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest to reach true perfection.
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