"Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term 'art,'
I should call it "the reproduction of what the senses perceive
in nature through the veil of the soul."

Edgar Allan Poe...1844

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"Art is the desire of a man to express himself,
to record the reactions of his personality
to the world he lives in."

Amy Lowell....1917

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