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Michael Ayrton was a renowned British artist known for his unique artistic style and prolific career. His works spanned various mediums including painting, sculpture, and printmaking, and were widely appreciated by both the art world and the public.

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Book:The Rudiments of Paradise: Various Essays on Various Arts

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“The process of drawing is... the process of putting the visual intelligence into action, the very mechanics of visual thought. Unlike painting and sculpture... the artist makes clear to himself and not to the spectator what he is doing. It is a soliloquy before it becomes communication.”

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Book:Drawing and Sculpture

Source: Drawing and Sculpture

“About the fearful sphere which we inhabit, whose centre may be calculated and whose circumference is physically established, there spin metaphors whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference shows itself only through holes in the dark.”

May Shows Earth Dark Metaphor Holes Spheres Fearful Centre

Book:The Rudiments of Paradise: Various Essays on Various Arts

Source: The Rudiments of Paradise: Various Essays on Various Arts

“Michelangelo's contemporaries thought him the greatest artist who ever lived and called him 'divine.' His reputation as sculptor, architect, painter and draughtsman has not subsequently been surpassed, and who is to say his contemporaries were wrong?”

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Author:Michael Ayrton

“Pride is a wound and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open that wound again and again. Among men it seldom heals and often grows septic.”

Men Grows Pride Picks Wounds Heal Vanity Again And Again Scabs

Author:Michael Ayrton

About the Author

Born: February 20, 1921
Died: November 17, 1975
Known for: Artist
Quotes: 5

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