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"The history of art is the history of revivals."
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"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."
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"Create with the heart, build with the mind."
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"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."
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"Art in the blood is liable to take the strongest forms."
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"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."
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"The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third."
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"Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art."
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"And it seemed at last that there were two musics progressing at one time before the seat of IlAovatar, and they were utterly at variance. The one was deep and wide ad beautiful, but slow and blended with an immeasurable sorrow from which its beauty chiefly came."
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"Most critics, fond of subservient artstill make the whole depend upon a part.They talk of principles, but notions prizeAnd all to one loved folly sacrifice."
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"One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin."
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"The public do not know enough to be experts yet know enough to decide between them."
Society
"I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudies."
Knowledge
"Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon."
Virtue
"Loyalty is still the same Whether it win or lose the game True as a dial to the sun Although it be not shined upon."
Virtue
"In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved."
Marriage
"Our latest moment is always our supreme moment. Five minutes delay in dinner now is more important than a great sorrow ten years gone."
Life
"The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us like the Kingdom of Heaven rather than without."
Spiritual
"I can generally bear the separation but I don't like the leave-taking."
Emotion
"Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes."
Knowledge
"Words are clothes that thoughts wear."
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