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Antique Art, beside affording a standard by which the modern may be measured, has the remarkable property-giving it a higher value of testing the genuineness of the Art-impulse. Even to genius, that is, to the artist, a true Art-life is difficult of attainment.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860