Every artist was first an amateur. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). Colle…

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Every artist was first an amateur. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims, p.119, Harvard University Press
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