"Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul."
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"Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading."
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"I got a PBS mind in an MTV world."
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"But when all is said, the greatest art is to limit and isolate oneself."
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"There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art."
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"Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens."
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"Theatre takes place all the time - wherever one is - and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case."
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"Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality."
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"Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth."
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"Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English sparrow, the house fly and the moth, must have a great and overwhelming love for no-goods and blots-on-the-town and bums, and Mack and the boys. Virtues and graces and laziness and zest. Our Father who art in nature."
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"Pie throwing is kind of a lost art, and although it may be a rather rudimentary, burlesque humor, there's something inherently funny about taking a pie in the face, under the right conditions."
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"Truly fine poetry must be read aloud. A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or silently. If we can read it silently, it is not a valid poem: a poem demands pronunciation. Poetry always remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. It remembers that it was first song."
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"Art is the clothing of a revelation"
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"Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features"
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"Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid and works its effect, itself unseen."
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"Art is fueled by rebellion: the need, in some amounting to obsessions, to resist what is, to defy one's elders, even to the point of ostracism; to define oneself, and by extension one's generation, as new, novel, ungovernable."
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"All art is bad, but modern art is the worst."
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"We live on the flat, on the level, and yet - and so - we aspire. Groundlings, we can sometimes reach as far as the gods. Some soar with art, others with religion; most with love. But when we soar, we can also crash. There are few soft landings. We may find ourselves bouncing across the ground with leg-fracting force, dragged towards some foreign railway line. Every love story is a potential grief story. If not at first, then later. If not for one, then for the other. Sometimes, for both."
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"Art is the only thing that helps people stay alive, and it is the only thing that has allowed people to create joy in this insane, suppressive universe. And art is the only thing that they can't get rid of. They've tried, but ultimately they can't stamp it out."
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"The highest art... sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood."
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