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"Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination."
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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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"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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"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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"Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art."
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"And it seemed at last that there were two musics progressing at one time before the seat of IlAovatar, and they were utterly at variance. The one was deep and wide ad beautiful, but slow and blended with an immeasurable sorrow from which its beauty chiefly came."
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"Most critics, fond of subservient artstill make the whole depend upon a part.They talk of principles, but notions prizeAnd all to one loved folly sacrifice."
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"One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin."
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"Art and the artist meet in stages, slowly revealing themselves until both are satisfied with what the other has become."
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"A picture is a voiceless poem, a poem is a vocal picture."
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"It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in the middle of the room. Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around."
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"Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices."
Choice
"None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace."
Peace
"The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power."
Power
"In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes."
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"To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults."
Behavior
"Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength."
Love
"The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us."
Power
"History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it."
History
"Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem."
Thought
"Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline."
Work
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