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• The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality.
  Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it. -- Gustave Courbe...
• The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
  -- Gustave Courbe...
• Miracle owes its origin to the negation of thought.
• Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.
  The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired....
• The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
  -- Leonardo DaVinci...
• I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota, without .
  . . having painted as much as you can cover with your hand, to please somebody or in order to sell the picture more easily....
• To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language.
  -- William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) -- Thanatopsi...
• A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
  -- H. L. Mencke...
• Realism is a corruption of reality. -- Wallace Steve