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— August Wilhelm von Schlegel"That which exists in nature is a something purely individual and particular. Art, on the contrary, is essentially destined to manifest the general."
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What a conception of art must those theorists have who exclude portraits from the proper province of the fine arts! It is exactly as if we denied that to be poetry in which the poet celebrates the woman he really loves. Portraiture is the basis and the touchstone of historic painting.
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