Time is a vindictive bandit to steal the beauty of our former selves. - Raphael Soyer

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Time is a vindictive bandit to steal the beauty of our former selves.

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About Raphael Soyer

Raphael Zalman Soyer (December 25, 1899 – November 4, 1987) was a Russian-born American painter. Soyer, referred to as an "American Scene" painter, was also an author who wrote his autobiography and a book on Thomas Eakins.

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Birth Name: Raphael Schoar
Alternative Names: Raphael Zalman Soyer Raphael Sawyer Raphaël Soyer
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Ever since the French revolution there has developed a vicious, cretinizing tendency to consider a genius (apart from his work) as a human being more or less the same in every sense as other ordinary mortals. This is wrong. And if this is wrong for me, the genius of the greatest spiritual order or our day, a true modern genius, it is even more wrong when applied to those who incarnated the almost divine genius of the Renaissance, such as Raphael.

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