"Many times we will get more ideas and better ideas in two hours of creative loafing than in eight hours at a desk."
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"If one has to earn a living, therefore, the safest occupation is that most remote from the arts."
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"Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same."
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"A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good."
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"Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying."
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"There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own sake, whose joy Thou Thyself art. And this is the happy life, to rejoice to Thee, of Thee, for Thee; this it is, and there is no other."
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"The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master."
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"Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets...seek to express the universe in terms of music. The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside."
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"This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art."
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"The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry."
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"Art needs no spur beyond itself."
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"Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive."
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"There is at least this to be said for mind, that it can dispel mind."
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"All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art."
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"Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free."
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"Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist."
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"A man is a god in ruins."
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"Our country, customs, laws, our ambitions, and our notions of fit and fair-all these we never made; we found them ready-made; we but quote from them. What would remain to me if this art of appropriation were derogatory to genius? Every one of my writings has been furnished to me by a thousand different persons, a thousand things; wise and foolish have brought me, without suspecting it, the offering of their thoughts, faculties, and experience. My work is an aggregation of beings taken from the whole of nature. It bears the name of Goethe."
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"The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not the manly labour of a wise and spiritual nation."
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"Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair."
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