"Ethics and aesthetics are one."
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"I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist."
"It's just plain learning something that you didn't know. There is a real aesthetic experience in being dumbfounded."
"If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy."