Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
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The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone
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Heaven-born, the soul a heavenward course must hold beyond the world she soars the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend.
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This comes from dangling from the ceiling
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If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
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Trifles go to make perfection,
And perfection is no trifle.
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The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
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What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed
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What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed?
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I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
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A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
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Genius is eternal patience.
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If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
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Lord grant that I might always desire more than I can accomplish.
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