| It is a gratification to me to know that
I am ignorant of art, and ignorant also of surgery. Because people who understand
art find nothing in pictures but blemishes, and surgeons and anatomists
see no beautiful women in all their lives, but only a ghastly stack of bones
with Latin names to them, and a network of nerves and muscles and tissues. - Letter to San Francisco Alta California, dated May 28, 1867; published July 28, 1867 |
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