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Trending topics shown first"He knew that the whole mystery of beauty can never be comprehended by the crowd, and that while clearness is a virtue of style, perfect explicitness is not a necessary virtue."
"What we ask of him is, that he should find out for us more than we can find out for ourselves.... He must have the passion of a lover."
"All art is a form of artifice.For in art there can be no prejudices."
"Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders."
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1865
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