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"Every work of art is an uncommitted crime."
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"Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all."

"We often forget to draw a new picture because we are so busy criticizing other paintings."

"A beautiful poem is nothing but a mirror of philosophy through which we can see life's pure beauty."

"Poets create a beautiful blue sky where you can fly with wings of imagination and find yourself again and again."

"The object of art is to enhance the beauty, imaginations and joy of life."

"A picture may be worth a thousand words, but those well-arranged words are worth a multi-million-dollar motion picture."

"Literature tries to express the intricate inner beauties of life. Philosophy tries to explain the intricate inner beauties and conflicts of thoughts."
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"Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane."

"He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest."

"Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices."

"Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come."

"Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them."

"Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense."

"Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people."
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