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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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"We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory."
Age
"I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent."
God
"All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice."
Power
"No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations."
Being
"I'm exceedingly proud of being an actor, but I never recommend it to anyone."
Actor
"Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples."
Life
"No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language."
Art
"I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words."
Cause
"If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to."
Vanity
"But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist."
Artist
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