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| Christoph Amberger Matthäus Schwarz 1542 oil on panel Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
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| Simone Bianco Cicero ca. 1530-40 marble Musée du Louvre |
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| Julia Margaret Cameron Philip Stanhope Worsley 1866 albumen silver print from glass negative Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Mariana Cook Marguerite Yourcenar 1983 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Henri-Pierre Danloux Jean-François de La Marche 1793 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| William Faithorne the Elder John Aubrey 1666 graphite and chalk on vellum Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Eugène Loizelet after Maurice Quentin de La Tour Voltaire ca. 1780 engraving (book illustration) British Museum |
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| Nicolaes Maes Hermanus Amija ca. 1683 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Pierre Mazeline Saint John the Evangelist 1668 marble Musée du Louvre |
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| Jean-Guillaume Moitte L'Abbé Jean-Louis Aubert ca. 1780 marble Musée du Louvre |
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| Eve Prager after Graham Sutherland Winston Churchill 1996 oil on canvas Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick |
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| Joshua Reynolds Adam Ferguson 1781-82 oil on canvas Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| John Singer Sargent Edmund Gosse 1886 oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| Iain Stewart Duane Michals 1993 gelatin silver print Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| William Strang Charles Francis Bell 1913 drawing Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Wilhelm Tischbein Lady Charlotte Campbell ca. 1789 oil on canvas Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Joos van Wassenhove Aristotle ca. 1475 oil on panel Musée du Louvre |
I am a reasonable man. Men have existed for millions of years. Men think that God is where things are technically advanced. God was there when man had no industry. Industry means everything that is artificial and invented. I also invent, and therefore I am industry. Men think that in the past there was no industry, but they were turkey cocks, and therefore historians think that they are gods who have feathers of steel. Steel is a necessary thing, but feathers of steel are a horrible thing. A turkey cock with steel feathers is horrible. An airplane is a horrible thing. I flew in an airplane and wept in it. I do not know why I wept, but my feelings gave me to understand that airplanes destroy birds. All birds flop down and are killed at the sight of an airplane. An airplane is a good thing, and therefore it must not be abused. Airplanes are a thing of God, and therefore I like them. An airplane must not be used as a war thing. An airplane is love. I love airplanes and will therefore fly where there are no birds. I love birds. I do not want to frighten them. One well-known flier was flying in Switzerland and flew into an eagle. An eagle is a predatory thing, but eagles must not be killed, because God has given them life.
– from The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky, written in Russian in 1919, translated by Kyril FitzLyon and edited by Joan Acocella (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999)