"Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa."

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"Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa."

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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."

Susan Sontag, American Author

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"Create with the heart, build with the mind."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Art in the blood is liable to take the strongest forms."

Arthur Conan Doyle, British Writer

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"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."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault."

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"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."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art."

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"A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music."

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"Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa."

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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."

"Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art."

"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."

"Art in the blood is liable to take the strongest forms."

"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."

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"Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art."

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"A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music."

"You can't seperate modern jazz from rock or from rhythm and blues - you can't seperate it. Because that's where it all started, and that's where it all come from - that's where I learned to keep rhythm - in church."

"Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life."

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"What ever truth drops on it eventually grinds to a powder."

"Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa."