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If in making a picture you introduce two ideas, you weaken it by half-if three, it weakens by compound ratio-if four, the picture will be really too weak to consider at all and the human interest would be entirely lost.

Howard Pyle

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Howard Pyle
Age: 58 †
Born: 1853
Born: January 1
Died: 1911
Died: January 1
Illustrator
Painter
University Teacher
Writer
Wilmington
Delaware
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