"More matter with less art."
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"This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of painting."
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"You can't control life. It doesn't wind up perfectly. Only-only art you can control. Art and masturbation. Two areas in which I am an absolute expert."
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"Imagination inspires you to look at everything with fresh eyes, as though you had just come forth from a dark tunnel into the light of day. Imagination becomes for you a magic lamp with which to search the darkness of the unknown, that you may discover new goals or chart more productive paths to old goals."
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"The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of art for art's sake than a man on a sinking ship thinks of painting a beautiful picture in the cabin; he thinks of getting ashore - and then there will be time enough for art."
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"My Friend: Art thou abroad on this stormy night on thy journey of love, my friend? The sky groans like one in despair. I have no sleep tonight. Ever and again I open my door and look out on the darkness, my friend! I can see nothing before me. I wonder where lies thy path! By what dim shore of the ink-black river, by what far edge of the frowning forest, through what mazy depth of gloom art thou threading thy course to come to me, my friend?"
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"The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret."
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"Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings."
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"At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time."
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"When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door."
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"Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art."
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"If social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain?"
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"Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life's crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides and wind currents inscribed on a chart."
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"We don't all dig Shakespeare uniformly, or even 'Little Red Riding Hood.' The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life."
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"Art has always been this--pure interrogation, rhetorical question less the rhetoric--whatever else it may have been obliged by social reality to appear."
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"The history of art is the history of revivals."
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"Knowledge is the only elegance."
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"Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us."
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"Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man."
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"Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time."
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