"When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons."
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"Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable."
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"From the internal reality, by which I means the totality of psychological experiences, it [science] actually separates us. Art, for example, deals with many more aspects of this internal reality than does science, which confines itself deliberately and by convention to the study of one very limited class of experiences the experiences of sense."
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"We tend to think and feel in terms of the art we like; and if the art we like is bad then our thinking and feeling will be bad. And if the thinking and feeling of most of the individuals composing a society is bad, is not that society in danger?"
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"The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don't have some kind of subsidy for the Arts. The whole culture in society has made certain films more acceptable. I turned down so many films in the '60s and '70s."
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"So-called restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge."
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"D'Artagnan, my friend, thou art brave, thou art prudent, thou hast excellent qualities, but- women will destroy thee!" -D'Artagnan"
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"Pain, thou art not an evil"
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"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. The more prolonged the halt in some unrelieved system of order, the greater the crash of the dead society."
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"Art heightens the sense of humanity. It gives an elation to feeling which is supernatural...A million sunsets will not spur us on towards civilization. It requires Art to evoke into consciousness the finite perfections which lie ready for human achievement."
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"The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul."
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"Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen."
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"I'm just really interested in the interface of the individual with the collective. I think that's where the arts live."
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"Mind is shapely, Art is shapely."
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"I have people say that they love how I keep them off balance as to what is real or not real about pretty much everything I write. I think it's an accurate description of how I feel every day. I can't tell what's real and what's not anymore. I think that's what makes art."
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"How hard, how desperately hard, is the way of the experimenter in art!"
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"Great emotion always tends to become rhythmic, and out of that tendency the forms of art have been evolved. Art becomes artificial only when the forms take precedence over the emotion."
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"Asia discovered two remedies for the cruelty of man, art and religion. America discarded both and is drowning in hate and aggressivity."
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"All the art of analysis consists in saying a truth only when the other person is ready for it, has been prepared for it by an organic process of gradation and evolution."
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"To mistake ugliness for reality is one of the frauds of the realistic school [of writing]. A hunger for the unknown and an aspiration toward beauty were inseparable from civilization. In America the word art was distorted to mean artificial."
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