Quote by William Hazlitt
Rules and models destroy genius and art. - William Hazlitt

Rules and models destroy genius and art. – William Hazlitt

Other quotes by William Hazlitt

The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right. – William Hazlitt

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Knowledge
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I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began. – William Hazlitt

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Oceans
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Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? – Charles Baudelaire

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The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spiders web. – Pablo Picasso

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The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute. – Charles Baudelaire

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Art

When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration. – Edward Steichen

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