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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. – Edith Wharton

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There are moments when a mans imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny. – Edith Wharton

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[I]t was a hymn to the beauty of the human form… and the praise of Nature, sublime, indifferent, lovely, and cruel. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, 1919

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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits. – Casey Stengel

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I cry out for order and find it only in art. – Helen Hayes

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