[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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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. – Winston Churchill
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