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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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"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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"I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being."
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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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"You called me poet-priest - I am. ...devoted to my art, faithful to you...or, is the other way around?..."
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"Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know."
Wonder
"My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life."
Life
"The awareness of our own strength makes us modest."
Strength
"Art is a harmony parallel with nature."
Nature
"A puny body weakens the soul."
Soul
"Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations."
Nature
"We live in a rainbow of chaos."
Chaos
"I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain."
Art
"For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations."
Nature
"We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature."
Nature
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