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"To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity."
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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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"Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art."
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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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"Art in the blood is liable to take the strongest forms."
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"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."
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"The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault."
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"He would argue with her about killing themselves; and explain how wicked people were; how he could see them making up lies as they passed in the street. He knew all their thoughts, he said; he knew everything. He knew the meaning of the world, he said."
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"The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third."
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"Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art."
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"Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed."
Persistence
"The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion."
Government
"Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century."
Progress
"Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past."
Future
"Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet."
Life
"One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence."
Intelligence
"It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless."
Values
"To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity."
Art
"Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten."
Life
"However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible."
Science
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