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I never feel myself so stimulated to be painstaking as after I have seen a beautiful object.

— Nicolas Poussin

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Reason, not appetite, should control the judgment.

To judge well is very difficult. To do so requires both theory and practice.

They do not realize that it is contrary to order and nature to place very large and massive things in high places or to make very delicate or weak bodies carry heavy weights.

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