PAINTING, n. The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic. Formerly, painting and sculpture were combined in the same work: the ancients painted their statues. The only present alliance between the two arts is that the modern painter chisels his patrons. - Ambrose Bierce

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Ambrose Bierce: "PAINTING, n. The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
Formerly, painting and sculpture were combined in the same work: the ancients painted their statues. The only present alliance between the two arts is that the modern painter chisels his patrons."

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Alliance	Ancients	Arts	Chisels
Combined	Critic	Exposing	Flat
Formerly	Modern	Painted	Painter
Painting	Patrons	Present	Protecting
Same	Sculpture	Statues	Surfaces
Them	Weather	Work

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