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GEORGE FREDERICK WATTS ~ I PAINT IDEAS
17 April 2015
“I paint ideas, not things. My intention is less to paint works that are pleasing to the eye than to suggest great thoughts which will speak to the imagination and the heart and will arouse all that is noblest and best in man.”
George Frederick Watts (1817-1904)
Female Figure
Plaster
George Frederick Watts
The Wife of Pygmalion
1868
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