Quote from History of Impressionism, Rev. ed. John Rewald, Museum of Modern Art, 1961, p. 89
posthumous quotes, Degas Dance Drawing' (1935)
“No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly," His Highness replied, "…and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.”
Source: Tale of Genji, Ch. 17: Eawase (trans. Royall Tyler)
Source: The Tale of Genji
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Murasaki Shikibu 24
Japanese novelist, poet during the Heian period. best known… 973–1014Related quotes
“The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature.”
What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.
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“There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.”
Source: Barchester Towers (1857), Ch. 20; this derives from an expression attributed to Euclid.
“[…]schools reward people who study more and more about less and less.”
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