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"A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas."
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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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"Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art."
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"Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting."
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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 artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault."
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"He would argue with her about killing themselves; and explain how wicked people were; how he could see them making up lies as they passed in the street. He knew all their thoughts, he said; he knew everything. He knew the meaning of the world, he said."
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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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"Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content."
Animals
"In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well."
Poetry
"God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly."
God
"A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts."
Thought
"A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas."
Art
"Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken."
Writing
"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up."
Dream
"Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious."
People
"History is the science of things which are not repeated."
History
"Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business."
Art
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