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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Christian Nestell Bovee
Art, Slave, Ideals

Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and--prayer.

Christian Nestell Bovee
Art, Prayer, Excellence

It is one of the arts of a great beauty to heighten the effect of her charms by affecting to be sweetly unconscious of them.

Christian Nestell Bovee
Beauty, Art, Charm

A peculiar work in any art must not be too hastily judged. New styles have to create new tastes.

Christian Nestell Bovee
Art, Style, Peculiar
Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.22

In art there are two principal schools between which each aspirant has to choose--one distinguished by its close adherence to nature, and the other by its strenuous efforts to get above it.

Christian Nestell Bovee
Art, School, Two

I once asked a distinguished artist what place he gave to labor in art. "Labor," he in effect said, "is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art." Turning then to another--"And you," I inquired, "what do you consider as the great force in art?" "Love," he replied. In their two answers I found but one truth.

Christian Nestell Bovee
Art, Two, Answers
Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.5

The language of the heart--the language which "comes from the heart" and "goes to the heart"--is always simple, always graceful, and always full of power, but no art of rhetoric can teach it. It is at once the easiest and most difficult language--difficult, since it needs a heart to speak it; easy, because its periods though rounded and full of harmony, are still unstudied.

Christian Nestell Bovee
Art, Simple, Needs

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