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Only this is true, that beauty is very beautiful, and softens, and inspires, and rouses, and lifts up, and never fails.

Edward Burne-Jones

The more materialistic science becomes, the more angels shall I paint. Their wings are my protest in favor of the immortality of the soul.

Edward Burne-Jones

I mean by a picture a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be - in a light better than any light that ever shone - in a land no one can define, or remember, only desire

Edward Burne-Jones

Edward Burne-Jones

Edward Burne-Jones

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Born: August 28, 1833

Died: June 17, 1898 (aged 64)

Known for:

The Golden Stairs (1880)
The Beguiling of Merlin (1877)
The Mirror of Venus (1875)
King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid (1884)
The Merciful Knight (1863)

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