Quote by Edith Wharton
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 is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self, the very meaning of one’s soul. – Edith Wharton

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They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods. – 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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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract. – Ellen Key

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

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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. – Pablo Picasso

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