Samuel Butler: Art has no end in view save the emphasising and recording in the most effective way some strongly felt interest or affec

Art has no end in view save the emphasising and recording in the most effective — Samuel Butler

Art has no end in view save the emphasising and recording in the most effective way some strongly felt interest or affection .

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Painters should remember that the eye, as a general rule, is a good, simple, cre — Samuel Butler
Sin is like a mountain with two aspects according to whether it is viewed before — Samuel Butler
The Will-be and the Has-been touch us more nearly than the Is. So we are more te — Samuel Butler
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to — Samuel Butler
Every artist was first an amateur. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art re — Friedrich Schiller
All that tangled emotion at the end—the angst, the hope, the fear and relief—rem — Alexander Wright
The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want — George Bernard Shaw
Well, he who loves must share the lot of the one he loves. — Mikhail Bulgakov
Oh Love! young Love! bound in thy rosy band, Let sage or cynic prattle as he wil — Lord Byron
Some of you will not come back. Some of you will come back maimed. Those of you — Jan Smuts
If thou covetest riches, ask not but for contentment, which is an immense treasu — Saadi