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“Art brings out the grand lines of nature.”

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Antoine Bourdelle was a prominent French sculptor known for his unique style and significant influence on modern sculpture. His works had a profound impact on the art world in the early 20th century. more

“None the less, perhaps, the highest pleasure in art is identical with the highest pleasure inscientific theory. The emotion which accompanies the clear recognition of unity in a complex seems to be so similar in art and in science that it is difficult not to suppose that they are psychologically the same. It is, as it were, the final stage of both processes.”

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Author:Roger Fry

“Poet: gardener of epitaphs.”

Art Design Poet Gardener Epitaph

Book:The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987

Source: The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987

“In all places where there is a Summer and a Winter, and where your Gardens of pleasure are sometimes clothed with their verdant garments, and bespangled with variety of Flowers, and at other times wholly dismantled of all these; here to recompense the loss of past pleasures, and to buoy up their hopes of another Spring, many have placed in their Gardens, Statues, and Figures of several Animals, and great variety of other curious pieces of Workmanship, that their walks might be pleasant at any time in those places of never dying pleasures.”

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Author:John Worlidge

“I need not print a line, nor conjure with the painter's tools to prove myself an artist ... Whilst in other spheres of labor the greater part of our life's toil and moil will of a surety end, as the wise man predicted, in vanity and vexation of spirit, here is instant physical refreshment in the work the garden entails, and, in the end, our labor will be crowned with flowers.”

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Author:J. D. Sedding

“Some of the writers I admire who seem very, very funny and very emotional to me can develop a closeness with the reader without giving too much of themselves away. Lorrie Moore comes to mind, as does David Sedaris. When they write, the reader thinks that they're being trusted as a friend.”

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Author:Sloane Crosley

“Today the art of gardening is practised much more often than any other, in ignorant, impulsive ways, by people who never stop to think that it is an art at all.”

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Author:Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer

“To conquer a piece of earth and make it as beautiful as one can dream of it being: That is art, too. A man cannot be separated from the earth. I come out of the garden every day feeling, oh, inspired in a way that one needs in order to convert the daily-ness of the life into something greater than that little life itself.”

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Author:Stanley Kunitz

“Long intros are cool because there's a little bit of anticipation, you know?”

Knows Littles Long Bits Music Little Bit Anticipation

Author:Miranda Lambert

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