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8 Reasons for Good Photographs /

24.6 - Knowledge of Self

#6: Knowledge of Self

Henry Ward Beecher wrote:

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.1

1 Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, compiled by William Drysdale, 1887.

Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) was a Brooklyn Congregational minister, orator, writer, and abolitionist. He was exonerated in the Tilton scandal concerning adultery.