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"The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion."
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"Poetry has its own unique language which every mind translates differently according to their own personal view."
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"Music makes my soul happy."
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"Poetry happens when there is nothing to say but you have a volcano hidden inside you waiting to erupt."
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"Filmmaking is not the work of the weak-minded. It may not be rocket science, but it requires ten times more strength of the mind than that."
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"Poetry is the truth dressed up with perceptions, emotions, and anxieties of expression."
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"Music lifted our spirit."
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"I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service.""
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"When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art."
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"Painting a picture is writing a poem with paint."
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"Everyone can understand music which is the universal language of love and kindness."
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"Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction."
Work
"The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions."
Life
"Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away."
Experience
"Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred."
Experience
"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."
Past
"Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments."
Interest
"The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion."
Art
"He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest."
Etiquette
"Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death."
Death
"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."
Work
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