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The canvas is but the means by which these conceptions of beauty, passion or anguish are manifested to the souls of others.
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Orange Jacobs
Republican · Washington

Editor's note · Context

Jacobs asserts that the canvas serves merely as a medium for expressing deeper artistic ideas, reinforcing the notion that the medium does not define the art itself.

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