Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
Science studies the relations of things to each other: but art studies only their relations to man.
An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
Disorder in a drawing-room is vulgar; in an antiquary's study, not; the black battle-stain on a soldier's face is not vulgar, but the dirty face of a housemaid is.
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