The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes.
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Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.
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The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow
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had learned the secret of the inner life.
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"the painter strives and competes with nature,"
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Thou, O God, sellest us all benefits, at the cost of our toil.... As a day well spent makes sleep seem pleasant, so a life well employed makes death pleasant. A life well spent is long."
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inward purpose and outward expression
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"There is nothing in all nature without its reason," he wrote. "If you know the reason, you do not need the experience."
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A keen desire for knowledge, guiding his action in life, spurred him onward.