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Thomas Mann

"An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates."

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"An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates."

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"When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist."

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"There is no poetry or song. There is no short or long.There is only you."

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"No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern."

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"Music gives strength to the spirit."

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"Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century."

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"Do you suffer when you write? I don't at all. Suffer like a bastard when don't write, or just before, and feel empty and fucked out afterwards. But never feel as good as while writing."

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"Art is anything people do with distinction."

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"The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature."

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"I think that films or indeed any art work should be made in a way that they are infinitely viewable; so that you could go back to it time and time again, not necessarily immediately but over a space of time, and see new things in it, or new ways of looking at it."

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"Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent."
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"War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."
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"Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd."
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"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."
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"Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate."
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