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"Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral."
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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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"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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"Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation."
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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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"Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life."
Life
"It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world."
Conscience
"When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process."
Peace
"The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth."
Earth
"Now I am discovering the world once more. England has widened my horizon."
Politics
"Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German."
Politics
"One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others."
Enthusiasm
"Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed."
God
"There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice."
Sacrifice
"In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting."
History
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