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• Nature is the art of God. -- Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) -- Religio Medici, Part i, Sect. xvi
• Too nicely Jonson knew the critic's part; Nature in him was almost lost in Art.
  -- William Collins (1720-1756) -- To Sir Thomas Hammer on his Edition of Shakespeare...
• Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. -- Emerso
• Art is a jealous mistress. -- Ralph Waldo Emerso
• All art is but immitation of nature. Seneca
• Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this.
  They teach us to abide by our own spontaneous expression with good humored inflexibility whether the whole cry of voices is on the other side....
• Art imitates nature as well as it can, as a pupil follows his maste
  hus it is a sort of grandchild of God. [ che l'arte vostra quella, quanto pote, segue, come 'l maestro fa il discente...
• The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn, .
  .. tired of common sense and civilization. -- F. L. Luca...
• A Master of Art Is not worth a fart. -- Andrew Boorde (1490?-1549)