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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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"I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts."
School
"Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field."
Thinking
"The role of art in society differs for every artist."
Art
"It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it."
Funny
"When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family."
Family
"I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination."
Architecture
"Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles."
Love
"Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture."
Architecture
"Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication."
Parents
"The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning."
Life
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