bif-steck's

Updated: July 15, 2025

I am of Bif-steck's opinion. There is no such true, earnest, humorous, and individual life, in these days of high civilization, as that of your genuine painter; impoverished as it often is, baffled in its aspirations, unregarded by the material and the worldly, it often rears and keeps pure bright, genial natures whose contact brings back the dreams of youth.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858