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Art does not imitate nature, but it founds itself on the study of nature—takes from nature the selections which best accord with its own intention, and then bestows on them that which nature does not possess, namely, the mind and the soul of man.
Art does not imitate nature, but it founds itself on the study of nature—takes from nature the selections which best accord with its own intention, and then bestows on them that which nature does not possess, namely, the mind and the soul of man.
Approximate author period: c. 1839 AD · industrial
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- Edward Bulwer Lytton
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- Approximate author period: c. 1839 AD · industrial
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
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