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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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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."
"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
"As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher."
"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."
"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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"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."
"A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past."
"A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one."
"Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist."
"The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic."
"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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