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"And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have."
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"I live, love and loathe my characters. They stole my mind. They stole my heart."
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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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"If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle."
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"And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art."
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"To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it."
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"Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?"
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"Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art."
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"Music communicates with the soul."
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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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"There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital."
Nation
"Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States."
Life
"Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky."
Travel
"I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening."
History
"I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art."
Relationship
"A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels."
Life
"There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant."
Action
"As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real."
Health
"I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time."
Time
"Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment."
Society
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