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Originality is what distinguishes art from craft. It is the yardstick of artistic greatness.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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H. W. Janson

H. W. Janson

Born: October 4, 1913
Died: September 30, 1982 (aged 68)
Bio: Horst Waldemar Janson, who published as H. W. Janson, was a Russian-born German-American professor of art history best known for his History of Art, which was first published in 1962 and has since sold more than four million copies in fifteen languages.
Known for:
  1. A Short History of Art (1962)
  2. History of Art for Young People (1971)
  3. Janson's History of Art 7th Ed
  4. 19th Century Art
  5. 19th-century Sculpture

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