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Dated:6/22/2005

THE ARTISTIC HAND

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THE ARTISTIC HAND
 
  Let us now push this type to extremes, and what do we find?
A fairly large Palm, smooth fingers, a weak Thumb, still more Conical Finger tips, i.e., large appetites for sensual pleasures, without sufficient moral control, and a mind lacking the strength to subject the senses to its dominion, the whole built upon a foundation of only slightly spiritual ideas. And this pictures— says d’Arpentigny—the character of artists, for in truth, beauty is the only thing they prefer to pleasure.