"Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all."
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"It is always the unreadable that occurs."
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"When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable."
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"Before Turner there was no fog in London."
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"Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one center of pain."
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"I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so."
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"It is personalities not principles that move the age."
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"I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy."
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"Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train."
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"Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men."
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"Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another."
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"Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ."
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"For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us."
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"When I see a spade, I call it a spade. I'm glad to say I have never seen a spade. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use it. It's the only thing he's fit for."
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"I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art."
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"There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose."
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"It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world"
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"A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do."
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"In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press."
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"I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity."
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