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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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"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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"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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"The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third."
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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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"Study the past, if you would divine the future."
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"The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue."
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"Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles."
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"Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven."
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"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."
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"You cannot open a book without learning something."
Learning

"It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs."
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"Wherever you go, go with all your heart."
Heart

"Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous."
Thought

"The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort."
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