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"Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature."
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"Poetry is an art that uses words to paint vivid pictures of perceptions and emotions."
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"When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist."
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"There is no poetry or song. There is no short or long.There is only you."
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"No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern."
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"Music gives strength to the spirit."
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"I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality."
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"What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art."
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"Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century."
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"Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind."
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"Do you suffer when you write? I don't at all. Suffer like a bastard when don't write, or just before, and feel empty and fucked out afterwards. But never feel as good as while writing."
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"Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language."
Art
"People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections."
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"The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero."
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"I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor."
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"Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics."
Genetics
"Personality and socialization aren't the same thing."
Personality
"By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu."
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"So no, it's not all in the genes, but what isn't in the genes isn't in the family environment either. It can't be explained in terms of the overall personalities or the child-rearing practices of parents."
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"Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate."
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"As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones."
Equality
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