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Si se me pidiera que definiera en pocas palabras el término arte, lo llamaría la reproducción de lo que los sentidos perciben en la naturaleza a través del velo del alma.
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Aparece citada en el libro "The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe" de Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell.
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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ''the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.'' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ''Artist.''