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«Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has ''cast up'' in my time or is like to -- this art by which even the ''poor'' can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones. And mustn't it be acting favorably on the morality of the country?»
«Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.»
«Art is never finished, only abandoned.»
«Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.»
«Good art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us.»
«Italy is certainly the native country of this art: and yet, I do not find the people in general either more musically inclined, or better provided with ears than their neighbors»
«After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well.»
«It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.»
«Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate; the art itself must be learned and painstaking»
«Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.»

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