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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."
"Create with the heart, build with the mind."
"Art in the blood is liable to take the strongest forms."
"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."
"He would argue with her about killing themselves; and explain how wicked people were; how he could see them making up lies as they passed in the street. He knew all their thoughts, he said; he knew everything. He knew the meaning of the world, he said."
"Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art."
"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."
"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."
Explore more quotes by Naguib Mahfouz
"It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts."
"History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself."
"I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees."
"I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things."
"The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions."
"The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition."
"I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me."
"If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion."
"I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party."
"Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization."
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