"The role of art is not to express the personality but to overcome it."
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"No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead."
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"Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty."
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"I don't see many artists who are not trying to bring their work to the public - -to the contrary I see artists nearly desperate to get attention for their art and, failing that, often for themselves."
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"Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality."
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"We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art."
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"I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!"
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"We could have saved sixpence. We could have saved fivepence. But at what cost?"
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"On the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able, and cultivated part of the population, is timid, and merely defensive of property. It vindicates no right, it aspires to no real good, it brands no crime, it proposes no generous policy, it does not build, nor write, nor cherish the arts, nor foster religion, nor establish schools, nor encourage science, nor emancipate the slave, nor befriend the poor, or the Indian, or the immigrant."
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"Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot."
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"Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts."
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"Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form."
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"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday."
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"Pictures must not be too picturesque."
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"Art, although produced by man's hands, is something not created by hands alone, but something which wells up from a deeper source out of our soul.....My sympathies in the literary as well as in the artistic field are drawn most strongly to those artists in whom I see most the working of the soul."
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"What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do."
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"The lamps are burning and the starry sky is over it all."
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"When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation."
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"Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle."
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"Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible."
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