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Show i(5ems of TTbouQbt ART A life passed among pictures makes not a painter else the policeman in the National gallery might assert himself. James McNeil Mc-Neil Whistler. The art which is grand and yet simple is that, which presupposes the greatest elevation both in artist and in public. Amiel. Art, unless quickened from above arid from within, has in it nothing beyond itself which is visible beauty. John Brown. It is Love which paints the petal with -myriad hues, glances in the warm sunbeam, arches the cloud with the bow of beauty, blazons the night with starry gems, and covers earth with loveliness. Mary Baker Eddy. The beautiful is the most useful in art; but the sublime is the most helpful to morals, for it elevates ele-vates the mind. Joubert. ' It is the treating of the commonplace common-place with the feeling of the sublime sub-lime that gives to art its true power. J. F. Millet. v ' |