Edward Burne-Jones quotes
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“The more materialistic science becomes, the more angels shall I paint. Their wings are my protest in favor of the immortality of the soul.”
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“I mean by a picture a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be - in a light better than any light that ever shone - in a land no one can define, or remember, only desire”
-- Edward Burne-JonesSource : Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1901). “Burne-Jones”
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“Only this is true, that beauty is very beautiful, and softens, and inspires, and rouses, and lifts up, and never fails.”
-- Edward Burne-JonesSource : Lady Georgiana Burne-Jones, Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1906). “Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones”
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Source : Abraham Coles (1892). “Abraham Coles: Biographical Sketch, Memorial Tributes, Selections from His Works, (some Hitherto Unpublished.)”
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Source : Adelaide Anne Procter (1858). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.155
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“I want to protect my own happiness. I'm not an angel. I'm just a normal girl.”
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“What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing?”
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“I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did.”
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“I sold my soul to the devil in L.A”
Source : Song: Country Boy, Album: Town Line, 2011
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