“To study one good master till you understand him will teach you more than a superficial acquaintance with a thousand: power of criticism does not consist in knowing the names or the manner of many painters, but in discerning the excellence of a few.”
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“Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless.”
― The Stones of Venice: Volume I. The Foundations
― The Stones of Venice: Volume I. The Foundations
“It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.”
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“In order that people may be happy in their work,
these three things are needed:
they must be fit for it;
they must not do too much of it;
and they must have a sense of success in it.”
― Pre-Raphaelitism
these three things are needed:
they must be fit for it;
they must not do too much of it;
and they must have a sense of success in it.”
― Pre-Raphaelitism
Rimantas’s 2025 Year in Books
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