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"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist."

"If I can't suck your milkshake through a straw, it's not a milkshake--it's a glass of ice cream."

"In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste."
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"The saddest thing is that every love has an unhappy ending, and all the more unhappy in proportion to how divinely it began, with what wings it first took flight."

"Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter."

"We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose."

"As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life."

"The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded ear."

"Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected."
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