"It seems to me that art is a great miracle-it is the showing forth of the Holy Spirit transubstantiation. It is to find and proclaim the poetry of life, without which there is no life."
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Introduction, in Engrave Glass: David Peace, Cambridge 1973.
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Jim Ede
Harold Stanley Ede (7 April 1895 β 15 March 1990), also known as 'Jim' Ede, was a British collector of art and friend to artists. Ede studied painting at Newlyn Art School between 1912 and 1914 .
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