"True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them."
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"We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic."
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"Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united."
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"Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work."
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"The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist."
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"Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up."
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"It is with art as with love: How can a man of the world,with all his distractions, keep the inwardness which an artist must possess if he hopes to attain perfection? That inwardness which the spectator must share if he is to understand the work as the artist wishes and hopes... Believe me, talents are like virtues; either you must love them for their own sake or renounce them altogether. And they are only recognized and rewarded when we have practised them in secret, like a dangerous mystery.""
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"If the whole world I once could see On free soil stand, with the people free Then to the moment might I say, Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art."
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"True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature."
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"Art will always be art."
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"Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over."
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"One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres."
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"Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book."
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"Art is a mediator of the unspeakable."
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"Colors are the deeds/ and sufferings of light."
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"The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality."
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"We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more."
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"Die Mathematiker sind eine Art Franzosen. Spricht man zu ihnen, so übersetzen sie alles in ihre eigene Sprache, und so wird es alsobald etwas ganz anderes. Mathematicians are a kind of Frenchmen. Whenever you say anything or talk to them, they translate it into their own language, and right away it is something completely different."
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"Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree."
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"Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave in so far as they must work with means of this world so as to be understood; her master in so far as they subject these means to their higher goals and make them subservient to them."
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