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"What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism."
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"Poetry is an art that uses words to paint vivid pictures of perceptions and emotions."

"Be an artist in everything you do."

"The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions."

"Art is a relection of the mind and a vision of the heart."

"She lives in the poetry she cannot write."

"Art is the reflection of an imaginative mind."
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"Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history."

"Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone."

"Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think."

"Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual."

"Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game."
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