To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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- To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.
- I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
- For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
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