Kenyon Cox Quotes

• Without design, there may be representation, but there can be no art.

  Kenyon Cox

  Art, Design, May

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• The scientific spirit, the contempt of tradition, the lack of discipline and the exaltation of the individual have very nearly made an end of art. It can only be restored by the love of beauty, the reverence for tradition, the submission to discipline and the rigor of self-control.

  Kenyon Cox

  Art, Self, Discipline

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• Who works for glory misses oft the goal;
  Who works for money coins his very soul
  Work for the work's sake, then, and it may be,
  That this thing shall be added unto thee.

  Kenyon Cox

  Work, Goal, Missing

  Kenyon Cox (1905). “Sculptors of the early Italian renaissance. Perugino. Michelangelo. The pictures of Venice. Veronese. Dürer. Rubens. Frans Hals. Rembrandt. William Blake”

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