"The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us."
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"Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect."
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"There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor."
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"All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself."
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"God and other artists are always a little obscure."
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"Art never expresses anything but itself."
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"The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts."
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"All art is at once surface and symbol."
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"Art, like Nature, has her monsters"
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"Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art."
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"Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to make art out of life."
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"I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art."
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"Parameters are the things you bounce off to create art."
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"The great tragedy is that they're removing art completely, not because they're putting more science in, but because they can't afford the art teachers or because somebody thinks it's not useful. An enlightened society has all of this going on within it. It's part of what distinguishes what it is to be human from other life forms on Earth - that we have culture."
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""Look into thy heart and write!" is good advice, but not if interpreted to mean, "Look nowhere else!" The poet should know his world and, so far as his art is concerned, any kind of battering from his world is better than his own self-indulgent brooding."
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"Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse."
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"And above all you ought to guard against leading an army to fight which is afraid or which is not confident of victory. For the greatest sign of an impending loss is when one does not believe one can win."
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"Nothing is of greater importance in time of war than in knowing how to make the best use of a fair opportunity when it is offered."
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"The greatest remedy that is used against a plan of the enemy is to do voluntarily what he plans that you do by force."
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"All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship."
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