"Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth."
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"The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past."
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"You will never love art well until you love what she mirrors better."
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"Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant; every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space is false which represents nothing."
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"My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18, that was an early equivalent of educational television. Sunday afternoon kind of variety art show."
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"Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art of living."
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"Art is the employent of the powers of nature for an end."
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"Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business."
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"For though, in nature, depth and height Are equally held infinite: In poetry, the height we know; 'Tis only infinite below."
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"O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee."
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"It's essential for me to be working on a nonfiction sort of research project simultaneous with multiple projects that are in different realms of art practice or not."
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"Computers creating art is an upsetting concept mostly because of what it means about humans."
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"Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we're writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important."
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"To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism."
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"God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us."
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"The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral , and I prefer the Platonic idea of the Muse to that of Poe, who reasoned, or feigned to reason, that the writing of a poem is an act of the intelligence. It never fails to amaze me that the classics hold a romantic theory of poetry, and a romantic poet a classical theory."
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"The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful."
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"The art of writing is mysterious, the opinions we hold are ephemeral."
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"Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius."
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"There is a subtle and unmistakable touch of love and pride, beyond mere skill, almost an inspiration which gives to all work that finish which is almost art - which is art."
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