THEY RULED LIKE GODS, JUST TO FALL FROM THE HEAVENS LIKE ICARUS.
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Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs, detail from the so called "François Vase" painted by Kleitias, ca. 570/560 BCE, attic black-figure volute krater, Museo archeologico nazionale di Firenze
[In 1900, the krater was smashed into 638 pieces by a museum attendant who threw a wooden stool against its protective glass. It was restored in 1902 and again reconstructed in the 1970s.]
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The one way for us to become great, perhaps inimitable, is by imitating the ancients.
Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Thoughts on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and Sculpture (1755)
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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), The Preface
