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What is art? Nature concentrated. - Balzac Art hath an enemy called ignorance. -- Ben Jonson Seraphs share with thee Knowledge: But art, O man, is thine alone! 109 SCHILLER: Artists, St 2. Art is the child of Nature; yes, Her darling child, in whom we trace The features of the mother's face, Her aspect and her attitude. 110 LONGFELLOW: Kéramos. ART. For Art is Nature made by Man To Man the interpreter of God. _The Artist_. LORD LYTTON (_Owen Meredith_). In the elder days of Art. Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part; For the gods see everywhere. _The Builders_. H.W. LONGFELLOW. It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise. 'Tis more by art, than force of numerous strokes. _Iliad, Bk. XXIII_. HOMER. _Trans_. of POPE. His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart. _Retaliation (Sir Joshua Reynolds)_. O. GOLDSMITH. Around the mighty master came The marvels which his pencil wrought, Those miracles of power whose fame Is wide as human thought. _Raphael_. J.G. WHITTIER. Artist. In framing an artist, art hath thus decreed, To make some good, but others to exceed. 111 SHAKS.: Pericles, Act ii., Sc. 3. Aspect. With grave Aspect he rose, and in his rising seem'd A pillar of state. 112 MILTON: Par. Lost, Bk. ii., Line 300.
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