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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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"Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?"
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"Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art."
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"Music communicates with the soul."
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"Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting."
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"Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation."
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"I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being."
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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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"Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs."
Time
"If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten."
History
"Heaven grant us patience with a man in love."
Love
"A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower."
Man
"God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers."
God
"Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established."
Animals
"If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son."
Family
"If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine."
Family
"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
Mankind
"Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade."
Gardening
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