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"Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?"
"Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness."
"Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate."
"I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange."
Explore more quotes by Walter Benjamin
"The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again."
"Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven."
"Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction."
"He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest."
"Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories."
"The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble."
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