John Ruskin: Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.

Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its de — John Ruskin

Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.

John Ruskin

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Los buenos artistas imitan la naturaleza; los malos, la vomitan. — Miguel de Cervantes
All passes, Art alone Enduring stays to us; The Bust out-lasts the throne,— The — Austin Dobson
L'art n'est pas une étude de la réalité positive; c'est une recherche de la véri — Art is not a study of positive reality
A poet can survive everything but a misprint. — Oscar Wilde
Why should we kill the best of passions, love? It aids the hero, bids ambition r — James Thomson
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Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue : Worlds lie a — Richard Francis Burton
Do not try to live for ever . You will not succeed. — George Bernard Shaw
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The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor. — Leo Tolstoy
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