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It must be remembered that painting is not the mere gratification of sight.
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As the natural dignity of the subject (of a portrait) is less, the more the ornamental helps are necessary to its embellishments.
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Nature is, and must be the fountain which alone is inexhaustible; and from which all excellencies must originally flow.
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No Art can be grafted with success on another art. For though they all profess the same origin, and to proceed from the same stock, yet each has its own peculiar modes both of imitating nature, and of deviating from it, each for the accomplishment of its own particular purpose. These deviations, more especially, will not bear transplantation to another soil.
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Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come from nothing.
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A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit. He cannot, like the poet or historian, expatiate, and impress the mind.
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You are never to lose sight of nature; the instant you do, you are all abroad, at the mercy of every gust of fashion, without knowing or seeing the point to which you ought to steer.
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The art of seeing Nature, or in other words, the art of using Models, is in reality the great object, the point to which all our studies are directed.
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The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labour employed in it, or the mental pleasure produced by it.
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I should desire that the last words which I should pronounce in this Academy, and from this place, might be the name of—Michael Angelo.
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Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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Born:
July 16, 1723
Died:
February 23, 1792
(aged 68)
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