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Imagine a painter crucified by his subject!
This age-old truth I to thee impart
Act according to the dictates of your art
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If you have ever watched an artist constructing with bits of cold stone a beautiful living picture you know that he works faithful ...
even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
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the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
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Only the sculptors and the poets were half sad,
And the pert retinue from the magician's house
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An artist cannot do anything slovenly.
The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the s ...
The man who, from the beginning of his life, has been bathed at length in the soft atmosphere of a woman, in the smell of her hand ...
Often, while contemplating works of art, not in their easily perceptible materiality, in the too-clear hieroglyphs of their contou ...
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