#final test

The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across? ↗

— Franz Kline

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When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art. ↗

— Marc Chagall

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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define. ↗

— E. M. Forster

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The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

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This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

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