"If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye."

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Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical process is, in the last, ever kept visibly distinct, while in the first it escapes from sight amid the shows of color and the curves of grace.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton