Art/Culture/Aesthetics Quotes

Question 1

A city of aquatint… the rare glory of her summer days

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Question 2

Sebastian, idly turning the page of Clive Bell’s Art, read: “‘Does anyone feel the same kind of emotion for a butterfly or a flower that he feels for a cathedral or a picture?” Yes. I do,’ that my eyes were opened.

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Question 3

Part Gallic, part Yankee, part, perhaps Jew; wholly exotic

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Question 4

Or that peculiarly noisome object?’ (a human skull… It bore the motto ‘Et in Arcadia ego’ inscribed on its forehead.)

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Question 5

Narcissus, with one pustule.

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Question 6

I think you’d better come with me to Venice… and so we went

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Question 7

You look so lovely in hunting clothes.

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Question 8

Small tortoise… slightly obscene object… antediluvian head… “Oh, Julia, what’s that? How beastly.”

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Question 9

The physical likeness between brother and sister… each time pierced me anew

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Question 10

He was dressed in a kind of thin, mid-European imitation tweed

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Question 11

“Her children, my art”

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Question 12

From fashionable and unfashionable lips alike I heard fragments of praise.

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Question 13

We know, you and I, that this is all t-t-terrible t-t-tripe.

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Question 14

Florid great thing, isn’t it?

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