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"Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding."
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"Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?"
"Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate."
"Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first."
"The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses."
"A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."
"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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"Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist."
"A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening."
"The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic."
"A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one."
"A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past."
"Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding."
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