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Art is a jealous thing; it requires the whole and entire man. - [Art] Beauty is the purgation of superfluities. - [Beauty] Death and love are the two wings which bear man from earth to heaven. - [Death] I carry my satchel still. - [Education] I criticise by creation, not by finding fault. - [Critics] I saw the angel in the marble and I just chiselled until I set him free. - [Art] If life be a pleasure, yet, since death also is sent by the hand of the same Master, neither should that displease us. - [Death] The more the marble wastes, the more the statue grows. - [Diligence] The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. - [Art] Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. - [Perfection] The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes The more the statue grows. - Sonnet, (Mrs. Henry Roscoe's translation) [Sculpture] Love lent me wings; my path was like a stair; A lamp unto my feet, that sun was given; And death was safety and great joy to find; But dying now, I shall not climb to Heaven. - Sonnet LXIII--After Sunset [Heaven] The hand that follows intellect can achieve. - The Artist, (Longfellow's translation) [Intellect]
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