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James Joyce

"The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question."

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"The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question."

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"The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art."

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"Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation."

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"Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste."

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"Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself."

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"The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible."

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"Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it."

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"Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion."

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"The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite."

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"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."

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"And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves "It's pretty, but is it Art?""

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