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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."
"Create with the heart, build with the mind."
"Music communicates with the soul."
"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."
"Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation."
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"History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created."
"The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life."
"It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last."
"I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name."
"So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die."
"The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make."
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