Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Samuel Butler
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- Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
- The history of art is the history of revivals.
- Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
- Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
- The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.