A work of art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

in his Salon of 1866 "Art is nature seen through temperament. Without observation, our art becomes a travesty of Nature." – slightly altered Zola’s phrase by H. Snowden Ward [cited in: "Pictorial Photography in Britain 1900 – 1920", exhibition catalogue, Arts Council of Great Britain in association with The Royal Photographic Society, London 1978, p. 13]

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