"Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.“


-Dante Alighieri

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Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

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