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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."
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"Create with the heart, build with the mind."
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"Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art."
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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."
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"Art in the blood is liable to take the strongest forms."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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"Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art."
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"Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about."
Humor
"There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave."
People
"Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it."
Society
"The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy."
Life
"The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being, the American wants to be considered a good guy."
Politics
"One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well."
Time
"In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought."
Art
"Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty."
Fact
"Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow."
Death
"Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week."
Age
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