"The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition."
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"All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires."
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"In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be."
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"Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience."
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"Life imitates art -- but badly."
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"In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one."
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"How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great Emancipator."
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"Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent."
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"Poetry and art are the breath of life to her."
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"Art is the reordering of nature - the qualities of space and time - in new perceptual and material form."
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"... Art is a soaring exercise of the human imagination."
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"The secret of artistic creation and the effectiveness of art is to be found in a return to the state of 'participation mystique' - to that level of experience at which it is man who lives, and not the individual."
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"In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife."
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"Poetry is an art practiced with the terribly plastic material of human language."
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"Thank God, men that art greatly guilty are never wise."
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"I am not here to teach martial arts, but to change people's lives!"
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"there is no politically neutral art."
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"Contrary to what some folks would have us believe, it is not tragic, even if undesirable, for a person to leave a liberal arts education not having read major works from this canon. Their lives are not ending. And the exciting dimension of knowledge is that we can learn a work without formally studying it. If a student graduates without reading Shakespeare and then reads or studies this work later, it does not delegitimize whatever formal course of study that was completed."
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"Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible."
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"When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone - it's possible. But creatively, it's more like painting: you can't just use the same colours in every painting. It's just not an option. You can't take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences."
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