Word: stilling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...average man who does not feel that he is in God and God in him, he will perhaps say that though this sounds well enough to hear in church once a week, he cannot accept it. He may perhaps agree with you that his life may be in God, still he will not believe that he may have the help of God's power. He will go on making his way as best he can with only the help of his own brains and his own endeavors. But to a man above the average there is given a great strenght...
Those who followed Giotto, abandoned his simplicity of style and filled their paintings with unnecessary detail, but there came one among them who returned to the early principles; this man was Fra Angelico. Though Giotto and Fra Angelico succeeded in their style, still naive "leaving out" and scientific elimination must be united with their genius, to constitute real decorative...
...Blashfield expressed himself as opposed to the notion that we must have a strictly American art. Though an American may in his study abroad take foreign landscapes for his subjects, he is still American in his art. Any national art is the sum total of what the natives may assimilate by their talent. So one will remain an American in his art. No one has any style of art entirely to himself. Raphael and Michael Angelo, though giants of their time, were not alone. They borrowed from the great masters before them. If one is only a link...
...afforded by the Bible. The book is not wholly pessimistic, for it sees the blue sky beyond. It is not wholly optimistic for it also sees the desolation. It is a book of progress and hope. It says the world is not what it ought to be, but still points out that it may constantly grow into better condition...
...this prayer which I have taken as my text had been thought of by man, I should believe that the human race had a splendid prospect before it, but as it was taught by one from heaven, who knew the weakness of man, I hope for a still more brilliant future...