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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."
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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
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"The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to enjoy the critics."
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"History develops, art stands still."
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"We are all artists painting our desires on the canvas of life and time."
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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."
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"As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher."
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"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."
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"To see things as the poet sees them I must share his consciousness and not attend to it; I must look where he looks and not turn round to face him; I must make of him not a spectacle but a pair of spectacles; in fine, as Professor Alexander would say, I must enjoy him and not contemplate him."
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"To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine."
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"Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great."
Life
"In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people."
Art
"I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use."
Varnish
"If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint."
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"If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary."
Needs
"Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics."
Aesthetics
"If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county."
Energy
"In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period."
Art
"I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions."
Emotional
"The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting."
Art
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