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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."
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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
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"The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to enjoy the critics."
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"History develops, art stands still."
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"We are all artists painting our desires on the canvas of life and time."
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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."
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"As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher."
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"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."
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"To see things as the poet sees them I must share his consciousness and not attend to it; I must look where he looks and not turn round to face him; I must make of him not a spectacle but a pair of spectacles; in fine, as Professor Alexander would say, I must enjoy him and not contemplate him."
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"To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine."
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"History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created."
Art
"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."
Man
"I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few."
Art
"It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last."
Experience
"No man is good enough to be another's master."
Man
"If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art."
Love
"The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make."
Future
"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."
Life
"The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life."
Happiness
"The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?"
Life
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