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In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.
Anna Brownell Jameson
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Anna Brownell Jameson
Age: 66 †
Born: 1794
Born: January 1
Died: 1860
Died: January 1
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He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.
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What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.
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All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side.
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As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections.
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As what we call genius arises out of the disproportionate power and size of a certain faculty, so the great difficulty lies in harmonizing with it the rest of the character.
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When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind.
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Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals.
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In our relations with the people around us, we forgive them more readily for what they do, which they can help, than for what they are, which they cannot help.
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Thoughts and emotions which never perhaps were in the mind of the artist, never were anticipated, never were intended by him - may be strongly suggested by his work. This is an important part of the morals of art, which we must never lose sight of. Art is not only for pleasure and profit, but for good and for evil.
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What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realizes itself.
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Now, it is a good sanitary principle, that what is curative is preventive.
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If we can still love those who have made us suffer, we love them all the more.
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the distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses genius combines and creates.
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A king or a prince becomes by accident a part of history. A poet or an artist becomes by nature and necessity a part of universal humanity.
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