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"What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism."
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"Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?"
"Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness."
"Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate."
"Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings."
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"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."
"Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone."
"If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time."
"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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