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The defining
function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
-- Max Eastman
American Commentator, Writer
Art never
improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.
-- T. S. Eliot
1888-1965, American-born
British Poet, Critic
The progress
of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual
extinction of personality.
-- T. S. Eliot
1888-1965, American-born
British Poet, Critic
Every artist
writes his own autobiography.
-- Havelock Ellis
1859-1939, British
Psychologist
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Classic art
was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the
stamp of caprice and chance.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
The true poem
is the poet's mind.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
The True
Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer,
after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
The arts and
inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not
invigorate men.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
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