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Art is not the plaything of the wealthy, but is the spirit of beauty which permeates the whole of Nature, and gives forth her message to all who can really appreciate it, make it their own, and attach their various artistic meanings to it.

— Andrew MacLaren

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The greatness of an artist depends on selecting and interpreting whatever phase in Nature may appeal to his sense of beauty.

A people that have become insensate of all that is really beautiful, are likewise indifferent to the appeals of the idealist.

Parliamentary time, can be wasted in kid-glove politics and nothing effective be done. I came to this House desiring to do something definitely along the lines of changing the law in some directions and not with the mere idea of becoming a gentleman in a parliamentary sense.

Art has come to be regarded as a form of amusement which can only be indulged in by men of great wealth....Thus art which is the soul of every democracy finds no place in the workaday existence

It does not matter where you look or what examples you select, you will see that every form of enterprise, every step in material progress, is only undertaken after the land monopolist has skimmed the cream off for himself.

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