"I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art."
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"The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition."
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"Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful. It is the science of the beautiful through which men seek the correlation of the arts. It is, to speak more exactly, the search after the secret of life."
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"What is abnormal in Life stands in normal relations to Art. It is the only thing in Life that stands in normal relations to Art."
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"For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it."
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"The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms."
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"Psychology is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so."
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"Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art."
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"The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium."
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"Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art."
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"It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors."
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"In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one."
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"Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us."
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"It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art."
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"By arts, sails, and oars, ships are rapidly moved; arts move the light chariot, and establish love. [Lat., Arte citae veloque rates remoque moventur; Arte levis currus, arte regendus Amor.]"
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"Art lies by its own artifice."
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"Take this at least, this last advice, my son: Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on: The coursers of themselves will run too fast, Your art must be to moderate their haste."
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"Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own."
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"There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause."
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"I had to go on TV with the president of the Catholic League, which is not an official organization at all, just a lot of Catholics, or maybe it's just this guy. He demanded to de-fund art completely and argued that taxpayers should not pay for it. I said people who represent the Catholic Church shouldn't talk about taxes."
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