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"Artistic temperament is like a king with vigor and unlimited opportunity. You shake the structure to pieces by playing with it."
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"Always seek beauty to create a beautiful life."
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"Make movies my friend " make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul."
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"Music gives life to the soul."
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"Music gives strength to the soul."
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"Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all."
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"We often forget to draw a new picture because we are so busy criticizing other paintings."
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"Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.""I hate them for it," cried Hallward. "An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty. Some day I will show the world what is it; and for that the world shall never see my portrait of Dorian Gray."
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"The arts that have escaped [uniformity] best are the arts in which the public take no interest. Poetry is an instance of what I mean. We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it."
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"A beautiful poem is nothing but a mirror of philosophy through which we can see life's pure beauty."
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"There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face."
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"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."
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". . . confirmed libertines don't reform until they're tired . . ."
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"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."
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"Artistic temperament is like a king with vigor and unlimited opportunity. You shake the structure to pieces by playing with it."
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"Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story."
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"Communism...muat of necessity be a saddening process for anyone who has ever tasted the intellectual pleasures of the world we live in."
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"Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores."
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"Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all."
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"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."
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"The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way."
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