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"Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?"

"Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate."

"Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first."

"The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses."

"A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."

"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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"You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life."

"Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved."

"We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do."

"To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them."

"That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer."

"Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking."
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