"Killing with the point lacks artistry, but don't let that hold your hand when the opening presents itself."
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"The more perfect the approximation to truth, the more perfect is art."
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"Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all."
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"Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the aesthetical physiologists say, a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy; it is not the expression of man's emotions by external signs; it is not the production of pleasing objects; and, above all, it is not pleasure; but it is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feelings, and indispensable for the life and progress toward well-being of individuals and of humanity."
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"In our age the common religious perception of men is the consciousness of the brotherhood of man - we know that the well-being of man lies in the union with his fellow men. True science should indicate the various methods of applying this consciousness to life. Art should transform this perception into feeling."
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"The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal."
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"What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art ."
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"The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament."
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"A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything."
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"The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a vast 'no.'"
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"Constant work, constant writing and constant revision. The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge. What he takes in he takes in normally the way any person takes in experience. But it is what is done with it in his mind, if he is a real writer, that makes his art."
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"Ronald Reagan: a triumph of the embalmer's art."
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"Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand."
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"Art is beautiful but it is hard, like a religion without a purpose."
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"You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it."
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"One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form."
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"Poetry is a verdict rather than an intention."
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"See yonder thin column of smoke curling up through the woods from some invisible farmhouse, the standard raised over some rural homestead.... It is a hieroglyphic of man's life, and suggests more intimate and important things than the boiling of a pot. Where its fine column rises above the forest, like an ensign, some human life has planted itself,--and such is the beginning of Rome, the establishment of the arts, and the foundation of empires, whether on the prairies of America or the steppes of Asia."
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"The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes."
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"We all kind of grew up together with Art Blakey because we all were young and he gave us a chance to write. We had to write something that was good and to sit up with a great guy like Art Blakey and watch him."
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