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The purpose of the painter is simply to reproduce in other minds the impression which a scene has made upon him. A work of art does not appeal to the intellect. It does not appeal to the moral sense. Its aim is to instruct, not to edify, but to awaken an emotion.

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The true end of Art is not to imitate a fixed material condition, but to represent a living motion,

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The true use of art is, first, to cultivate the artist's own spiritual nature.

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The greatness of art is not in the display of knowledge, or in material accuracy, but in the distinctness with which it conveys the impressions of a personal vital force, that acts spontaneously, without fear or hesitation.

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We must have religion for religion's sake, morality for morality's sake, as with art for art's sake…the beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
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George Inness

George Inness
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Born: May 1, 1825
Died: August 3, 1894 (aged 69)
Bio: George Inness was a prominent American landscape painter and georgist activist.
Known for:
  1. The Lackawanna Valley (1855)
  2. The Home of the Heron (1893)
  3. Sunset at Etretat (1875)
  4. The Rainbow (1878)
  5. The Goat Herder (1853)

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