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“In the vaunted works of Art
The master-stroke is Nature's part. 5.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Art
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant: In the vaunted works of Art
The master-stroke is Nature's part. 5.
“The pencil-stroke is like cutting into the heart.”
Günter Brus (1938) Austrian artist
Source: Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006), P. 8 (Gunter Brus Werkumkreisung,op.cit, p. 128.)
John Berger (1926–2017) British painter, writer and art critic
Source: About Looking (1980), Chapter "Why Look at Animals?"
Paul Klee (1879–1940) German Swiss painter
Quote (1908), # 840, in The Diaries of Paul Klee, translation: Pierre B. Schneider, R. Y. Zachary and Max Knight; publisher, University of California Press, 1964
1903 - 1910
Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury (1583–1648) Anglo-Welsh soldier, diplomat, historian, poet and religious philosopher
Source: The Autobiography, P. 31
Bartolomé de las Casas (1474–1566) Spanish Dominican friar, historian, and social reformer
History of the Indies (1561)
“The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams.”
Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN
Quoted in The Fine Art of Political Wit by Leon Harris (1964); this statement is derived from one by humorist Don Marquis
Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857–1935) American geologist, paleontologist, and eugenist
Evolution and Religion in Education : Polemics of the Fundamentalist (1926), p. 138
“A great cricketer must be an artist and express himself in his strokes.”
Margaret Hughes (1645–1719) British actress
All On A Summer's Day (1953).
