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"I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it."
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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."
"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."
"Create with the heart, build with the mind."
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"I don't think I will ever do any tours again in the United States. I rather think that that's over with."
"I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create."
"In 1958, I decided that I was going to live in Europe permanently. So in 1959 I moved to Lugano, Switzerland."
"You will always find a few people in any area that would like things done completely their way."
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